"I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine."

“The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.”

“You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.”

“I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.”

“If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.”

“I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.”

“I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

“These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.”

“We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.”