A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Why are you a physicist? Why aren't you a mathematician?
I cannot compute Cm for m > 3. This may be due to old age, stupidity, and laziness.
Property is a nuisance.
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
My mother said, "Even you, Paul, can be in only one place at one time." Maybe soon I will be relieved of this disadvantage. Maybe, once I've left, I'll be able to be in many places at the same time. Maybe then I'll be able to collaborate with Archimedes and Euclid.
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