Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.

The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.