Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something read more

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

We're all living in a chemical soup.

We're all living in a chemical soup.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware read more

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.

Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.

Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little read more

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.