You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.