“Don’t disturb my circles!”

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Man has always learned from past. After all, you can’t learn history in reverse.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

Rise above oneself and grasp the world.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

He who knows how to speak, knows also when.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confused as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

Fellow, stand away from my diagram.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

I’ve been lucky with the circle of people I’m playing with. We’ve played enough that there’s a language we talk with each other when we play.

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

It’s a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we’re happy.

I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.

It’s true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.