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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.

Whenever you can, count.

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one’s mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

There was a young fellow from Trinity,Who took the square root of infinity.But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour … What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

I didn’t want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part. He said, What happened then, daddy? I said, If you learn to read, you can find out. I’m too tired to read. I’ll read to you tomorrow. So, he had a need to want to learn how to read. Don’t teach children how to read. Don’t teach them mathematics. Give them a reason to want it. In school, they’re working ass-backwards.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Real numbers are good if you add the word ‘random’.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

The imaginary expression ?(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some inconsistency or absurdity. As far as real meaning is concerned, both are imaginary, since 0 – a is as inconceivable as ?(-a).

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

We’ve taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more – We’ve taught you how to think.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.