No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

To fear love is to fear life.