Quotes by : Paul Hoffman

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal....

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on....

- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.....

When he said someone had 'died", Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When....

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can....

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered....

Many are called, few are chosen.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped....