"I am never so知其不可为而为之 happy as when I am really engaged in some good hard thinking."

"My brain is more than merely mortal; as time unfolds, it will be seen."

"I believe myself to be a rare combination of the imaginative faculty and the mathematical faculty, which is rare, and therefore valuable."

"I am a very singular person."

"I am driven by a desire to understand the fundamental laws of the universe."