What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

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.

You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.

There is so much power in not been easily fazed and having the will to go on no matter what. I pray for "bottomless tenacity".

There is always an inside from outside the door

Prayer should not be so much about petitioning God as it should be about promoting our own spiritual growth.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.