Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

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.

Writers were a strange sort

Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

How could you stop loving me?

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.

What is not in nature can never be true.