Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.
. . . from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.
You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.
Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.
