When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the…

“There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair…

— Richard P. Feynman

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

— Jim Peebles

On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

— Richard P. Feynman

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

— Paul Erdos

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise…

— Marvin Minsky

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

— Jacob Bronowski

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of…

— Niels Henrik Abel

For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that…

— Seymour Papert

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation…

— Imre Lakatos

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something,…

— G. H. Hardy

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas…

— G. H. Hardy

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments,…

— Christopher Zeeman

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound…

— Chen-Ning Yang