"The nice thing about mathematics is doing mathematics."

"From Grothendieck] and his example, I have also learned not to take glory in the difficulty of a proof: difficulty me…"

"Deligne’s method was totally perpendicular to Grothendieck’s: he knew every trick of his master’s trade by heart, eve…"

"Usually mathematicians are either theory builders, who develop tools, or problem-solvers, who use those tools to find…"

"Thonissen was an intrepid worker, a firm Christian, an upright and simple man, with just a touch of artless vanity, t…"

"The national culture of Belgium is a synthesis, if I may so call it, where one finds the genius of two races — the Ro…"

"The history of mankind may have as many divisions as human life has aspects or sides. Its noblest form is the history…"

"AI is already happening today and it is pervasive, often invisibly embedded in our day-to-day tools and as part of co…"

"Darwin and Freud dethroned our beliefs of exceptionalism, our feelings of superiority, and our fantasies of control; …"

"Machine learning can be used to recognize faces (and even recognize emotions based on analysis of the faces), make se…"