My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.