Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.