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

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.

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

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.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Her smile hollowed out his chest. She’d changed since last he saw her. She was brighter. More vibrant. Happiness suited her.

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.