The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well.
The true challenge in mathematics is not solving problems, but asking the right questions.
In science, as in life, the important things are rarely simple or obvious.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified.