Quotes from James Newman

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Sleep evaded him like an old friend who owed him money.

I have experienced real horror. I have known true evil. Its name is human nature.

Hard at work on a new one, huh? What's this one called?" "A Feast of Souls." "A Feast of Souls," Ben said. "Classy." I slowed, unsure whether or not I had detected a hint of sarcasm in my neighbor's tone.

The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.'

God damn every one of you two-faced motherfuckers.

At that moment I realized the true nature of hatred. It is contagious.

They stopped building long enough to tilt their heads toward the heavens, and together they sang a dark, unholy song, words not spoken for centuries. Moloch watched the gathering from his place in Hell, and he said that it was good.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.