"Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness."

“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”

“I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.”

Source : "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”

“Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2013). “Selected Papers of Chen Ning Yang II: With Commentaries”, p.260, World Scientific

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

“if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.”

“All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.”