I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

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

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

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

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

I don't seek power and do not run around