The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

There are no answers, only cross references.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single notion receives a separate and different name from each group, and in which important work has been triplicated or quadruplicated, while still other important work is delayed by the unavailability in one field of results that may have already become classical in the next field.