Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Do you know something? I've got this funny feeling fate arranged for you to enter my life for the express purpose of tormenting me.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals.

I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

The only way you learn is by failure.

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind.

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

We only have ten years to save the oceans

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.