Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.