Mikhail Botvinnik

"If the sensation that precedes the present by half a second were still immediately before me, then on the s…"

"A new theory by the author has been added, which draws the physical inferences consequent on the extension …"

"But he was not an idiot,... Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom — that may be…"

"You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..…"

"An important consequence of the unique interaction between internal and external forces … is that knowledge…"

"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed wh…"