In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Thoughts are steered in different ways.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy.

There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.