You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.