"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapp…"

"The human mind is an emergent property of the brain."

"We are not interested in the fact that a machine can solve a problem, but in the fact that it can solve a problem that we cannot."

"I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past. In the time of Galileo it was argued that the …"

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."