"One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity."

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."

"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis b…"

"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in exist…"

"Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics."

"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."

""Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of …"

"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."

"Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und überlegenem Tone den Kulturuntergang propheze…"

"But he (Galileo) was not an idiot,... Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom — that may be…"