Andre Weil Quotes
- Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does…
- Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously…
- Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
- First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
- What is crucial is there be laws.
- In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for…
- God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.