"Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops."

“It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.”

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

“I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.”

“Love is not a contract between two narcissists.”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

“It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not a frozen moment, but an image made up of many moments and that is created over time rather than taken.”

“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.”

“Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.”

“The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.”