I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

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

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.