Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.