There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.