Nature imitates mathematics.

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.

There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.