Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.
The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.
In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.
It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.
Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.
Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).
I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness
I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.