A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

Property is a nuisance.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

It is the very people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.