The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.