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

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.”

I have written this book in isolation, hardly talking to a soul, but unoppressed as well by campus codes or creeds, free to say what I want and when I want. It is a measure of the degradation that has overtaken American academic life that I should feel obliged to boast of such circumstances.

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