Andre Weil Quotes

#1. In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Andre Weil

#2. As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Eli Broad

#3. I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

Jeff Zucker

#4. What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

#5. When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

Andre Weil

#6. Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ron Lewis

#7. Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Andre Weil

#8. Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

#9. Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

#10. I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.

Elisabeth Marbury

#11. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Andre Weil

#12. Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.

Trevor Hammack

#13. It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Deborah Meier

#14. First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

#15. I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

Elizabeth Berg

#16. When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

Thich Nhat Hanh