Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.