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

- David Mumford

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

- David Mumford

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

- David Mumford

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

- David Mumford

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…

- David Mumford

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

- David Mumford

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…

- David Mumford

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…

- David Mumford

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

- David Mumford