Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment.

never say never see what is possible if you never give up

. . . when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.