Topology and number theory are my faves.

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery?

If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.