It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

The only way around is through.