The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return home. You're the mind we need, Doctor.

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.