The boldness of his mind was matched by the candor of his speech.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
The laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe, and that is a profound truth.
The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.
The Langlands program is a testament to the power of abstract thought in mathematics.