Erreicht / Reached Habe gedacht / Thought Höchste / Highest Leiter / Ladder Mathematiker / Mathematician Mensch / Human Sprosse / Rung
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
