The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

Do what you love, think what you feel and live the way you want.

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll beworking pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.