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Number rules the universe.

Mathematics has a beauty and a charm that few are able to perceive.

The unknown is not something to be feared. It is something to be desired. It is the very essence of mathematics.

I think I'll stop here.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

It is known that the results of geometry rest upon certain assumptions concerning the nature of space.

Nothing is better than eternity. Eternity is better than anything. Therefore, nothing is better than nothing.

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

You will publicly beg of me to publish the whole of my work.

I don't believe in the empirical method. I believe in a priori knowledge.

An equation has no meaning for me unless it expresses a thought of God.

Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

We can now say that in the case of electric waves, the velocity of propagation is equal to that of light.

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

There is no royal road to geometry.

It is inconceivable to me that a body should act upon another body without the intervention of some other thing.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The Foot of a Louse... is arm'd with several crooked Spines or Thorns, which serve it as Teeth to hold fast by.

The universe is not a computer. It is a mathematical structure.