How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
Against Steve Johnson at the Olympics I was down a couple of times.
We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.
You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.