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Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.
Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.
The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.
I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Music is a secret and unconscious mathematical problem of the soul.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.