But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.