“Physics professors have a harder time believing in God since their job is to study creation. Mathematicians can be more relaxed.”
Michael Atiyah, former head of the UK’s Royal Society, at a meeting of top mathematicians in Rome, Italy, aimed at putting maths back on its pedestal with architecture, music and aesthetics (The Observer, London, March 18)
“They should work like a Kalashnikov. Reliable in anybody’s hands.”
Russian businessman Anfis Saibakov, who formed a company called Ekomotor to make and market petrol-powered footwear, expressing his disappointment that the boots are not safe (The New York Times, 17 March)
“It’s not the American way. And it’s not…
