Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

- Philip Emeagwali

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

- Philip Emeagwali

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

- Philip Emeagwali

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in natur…

- Philip Emeagwali

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

- Philip Emeagwali

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

- Philip Emeagwali

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

- Philip Emeagwali

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

- Philip Emeagwali

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

- Philip Emeagwali