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.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

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

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

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.

Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good!

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Nothing is as powerful as one's beliefs.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

We are all naturally xenophobic.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.