“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
“Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”
“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”
“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
“In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less crazed certainty. . . . People who know the answer and are going to impose it on everybody else, I think, are terrifying people.”