Quotes by : Paul Hoffman

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....

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always....

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question....

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....

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand....

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the....

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

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