If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.