I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the ….
I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere..
I have respected women from the beginning of my life..
Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated..
Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized..
That's what's good about life - that you always learn..
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the ….
Everyone is the other and no one is himself..
When I eat better, I perform better..
There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..
I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said….
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background..
The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a ….
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math..
Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach new lows when you are hungover….
Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do..
Times change and you have to adapt..
Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….
I've always dressed like a dude..
The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create..