"I don't believe in the idea of a 'common man' or a 'common woman.' I believe in individual people."

"God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. ... But you need him f…"

"I asked him once, 'How do you tell when a mathematical argument is correct?' He said, 'If it's beautiful, it's correct.'"

"I was very surprised when I got the Nobel Prize. I didn't think I deserved it."

"The only way to do something is to do it. Not to talk about it, not to plan it, but to do it."