You're trying to create, just as a musician is trying to create music, or a poet. There are no rules

— Michael Atiyah, Michael Atiyah's Imaginative State of Mind (2016)

Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/michael-atiyahs-mathematical-dreams-20160303

Answer in a 2016 Quanta Magazine piece, as quoted by Siobhan Roberts.

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