First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

- Andre Weil

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously .…

- Andre Weil

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself,…

- Andre Weil

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not…

- Andre Weil

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

- Andre Weil

What is crucial is there be laws.

- Andre Weil

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, …

- Andre Weil

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

- Andre Weil