Church, Alonzo

"I found that there were about 600 or so lot of people who were by definition only people who were trying to figure things out."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own."

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

"The lambda calculus is a language for talking about functions."

"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise."

"We are always ready to take something on faith, when we have exhausted all other possibilities."

"An algorithm must be seen to be believed."

"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically."

"I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our role is to discover it, not to invent it."

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

"There is no fact or circumstance that could not be explained if we only imagine explanations in sufficient number."

"Logic is the anatomy of thought."

"The greatest unsolved problem in mathematics is P versus NP."

"All knowledge is ultimately self-knowledge."

"I think that it is a remarkable fact that all the fundamental theorems of analysis can be derived from the concept of the derivative."

"Mathematics is the science of what is necessary."

"The task of the philosopher is not to refute errors but to understand them."

"We must know the truth, and we must speak it."

"The universe is fundamentally mathematical in nature."

"Beauty and mathematical elegance are deeply connected."

"Creativity in mathematics is the art of finding new connections."

"The human mind is the most powerful tool we possess."

"In science, there is no authority, only reason."

"Innovation requires us to think beyond the boundaries of convention."

"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all endeavors."

"Every great discovery begins with a question."

"The foundation of knowledge is imagination."

"We stand on the shoulders of giants."

"Perseverance is the key to unlocking great discoveries."