If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.
Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.
The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.