The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Is that an invitation?” “I suppose it is.” “Good.” Cade’s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. “And tell your friend in the striped shirt that he’s in my seat.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.