I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.