You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.