凡是合乎理性的都是现实的,凡是现实的都是合乎理性的。
Was vernünftig ist, das ist Wirklich; und was wirklich ist,das ist vernünftig.
The conjectures of the Langlands program are not merely problems to be solved but a vision of how mathematics should be.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
The study of mathematics is like air or gravity—it is everywhere, and you can't see it, but you know it's there.
"The writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to unsettle the comfortable, and to comfort the unsettled."