The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

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.

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.

...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.