It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.
Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.
For every epsilon, there is a delta.
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought to the realm of computer-fodder. It is quite exciting to think about what other fields of pure mathematics, hitherto thought to be reserved to human intelligence, might be moved to that realm next. The goal is to put ourselves out of business completely, and the work is well underway.
When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?