Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

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.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.

Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!

L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.