We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Warren was nearly hoarse as he wiped the tears from his eyes and face. "I need to change. I need to protect my family. I need to earn who I am.

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

Belief is what you do when there is no data.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.