Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

I never use a computer.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.

You are so beautiful, I could eat you, ” he said.And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.And he could eat her.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Everything that's important - you can take with you.