Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that conv….

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating..

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts a….

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to….

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems..

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they….

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think..

My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we o….

The world is a very complicated place, as babies know..

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points..

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete..