“Fields medalists are nothing out of the ordinary at Princeton—you sometimes find yourself seated next to three or four of them at lunch!”
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French mathematician 1973Related quotes

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”
“Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.”
Source: Warlock

Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V
Context: A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”
Source: Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”
Source: The Active Side of Infinity