Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say. “Remember me.” - David Berlinski

A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.

The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life.

Stepping forward, I step back, the two steps, one forward and one back, canceling one another so that after they have been completed, I am where I started, having done something but accomplished little, a useful metaphor for a great many activities in life.