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

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians