The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.