The best revenge is massive success.
The quality of a country's institutions is the most important determinant of its success.
The dialogue between science and society must be continuous and transparent.
The decay of political institutions is often a result of the inability to adapt to changing circumstances, leading to rigidity and eventual decline.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.