The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems..
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics..
Underconfidence breeds underachievement..
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently..
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes..
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself..
I just tried to build on my failures..
I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..
You can't control what you can't measure.
I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist..
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be..
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions..
No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of pro….
You don't get nothing and like it..
Nothing is 'just' anything with you.
Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society..
Often, others see you, as you see yourself.
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man..
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls..
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or ma….
I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously..