In some parts of life like mathematics and science yeah I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

If a man's wit be wandering let him study the mathematics.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you too. It's so important I mean and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics which is a challenge right? Math is hard.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Poetry is a form of mathematics a highly rigorous relationship with words.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.