I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.