Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.

Greatness is achieved, not only, by doing great things, but also, by making the small things we dogreat.

if wishes were horses beggers will ride

Prosperity makes few friends.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The sea lives in every one of us.