The Langlands program is a challenge to our understanding of the nature of mathematical truth.
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.