Quotes by Andre Weil

• What is crucial is there be laws.
• Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
• First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.