Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

Begin with the simplest examples.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count