The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.

You can't take back the things that have been said neither the actions that have been done.

For people have four shadows

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.