We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Its important for us as Democrats to stick together.

People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.