David Mumford Quotes

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

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 are mathematically illiterate.

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

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

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.