It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.