Imagination rules the earth

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

I want to know God's thoughts.