Every Good Mathematician Should Also Be A

Thought Must Never Submit, Neither To A Dogma, Nor To A Party, Nor To A Passion, Nor To An Interest, Nor To A Preconceived Idea, Nor To Whatever It May Be, Save To The Facts Themselves, Because, For Thought, Submission Would Mean Ceasing To Be.

When The Logician Has Resolved Each Demonstration Into A Host Of Elementary Operations, All Of Them Correct, He Will Not Yet Be In Possession Of The Whole Reality, That Indefinable Something That Constitutes The Unity ... Now Pure Logic Cannot Give Us This View Of The Whole; It Is To Intuition That We Must Look For It.

It Is A Misfortune For A Science To Be Born Too Late When The Means Of Observation Have Become Too Perfect. That Is What Is Happening At This Moment With Respect To Physical Chemistry; The Founders Are Hampered In Their General Grasp By Third And Fourth Decimal Places.

If One Looks At The Different Problems Of The Integral Calculus Which Arise Naturally When One Wishes To Go Deep Into The Different Parts Of Physics, It Is Impossible Not To Be Struck By The Analogies Existing.

Point Set Topology Is A Disease From Which The Human Race Will Soon Recover.