The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatne….

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While cons….

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

... humility + humor = humanity..

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my foreh….

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe..

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince..

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..