Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human community...

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.