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.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

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.

You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through your eyes.

Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling

The body suffers, but the spirit is renewed.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.