The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

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

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

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

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).

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.