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

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.

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.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Achievements must be highlights and not forgotten. So you always will have to rely in something on your frustrations.

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women.

Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?""I like him very much indeed!"Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.

I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.