He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

Most of us are pseudo-scholars…for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as...

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I – of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.