The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.