The most widespread form of inequality in the world today is not that between rich and poor, but that between men and women.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified in a single framework.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

科学的进步不仅依赖于个人的才华，也依赖于集体的努力。

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.

The human being is a sun; and the senses are his planets.