The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Science is uncertain.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.