In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The most important quality for a scientist is curiosity - the desire to understand how things work.

世界是一个故事，我们都是其中的角色。

The interplay between local and global phenomena is a recurring theme in number theory.

我并非天生失明，12岁时才失去视力。所以我见过这个世界，知道事物的模样。当我歌唱爱与痛苦、欢乐与悲伤时，我知道自己在唱什么。