You Wake Me Up Early In The

If People Do Not Believe That Mathematics Is Simple, It Is Only Because They Do Not Realize How Complicated Life Is.

I Would Like To Make A Confession Which May Seem Immoral: I Do Not Believe Absolutely In Hilbert Space Any More.

By And Large It Is Uniformly True In Mathematics That There Is A Time Lapse Between A Mathematical Discovery And The Moment When It Is Useful; And That This Lapse Of Time Can Be Anything From 30 To 100 Years, In Some Cases Even More; And That The Whole System Seems To Function Without Any Direction, Without Any Reference To Usefulness, And Without Any Desire To Do Things Which Are Useful.

Neumann, To A Physicist Seeking Help With A Difficult Problem: Simple. This Can Be Solved By Using The Method Of Characteristics. Physicist: I'm Afraid I Don't Understand The Method Of Characteristics. Neumann: In Mathematics You Don't Understand Things. You Just Get Used To Them.

You Wake Me Up Early In The Morning To Tell Me I Am Right? Please Wait Until I Am Wrong.