Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

Nature imitates mathematics.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.