Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.