What Is It Indeed That Gives Us

Ideas Rose In Clouds; I Felt Them Collide Until Pairs Interlocked, So To Speak, Making A Stable Combination.

Mathematical Discoveries, Small Or Great Are Never Born Of Spontaneous Generation They Always Presuppose A Soil Seeded With Preliminary Knowledge And Well Prepared By Labour, Both Conscious And Subconscious.

Analyse Data Just So Far As To Obtain Simplicity And No Further.

One Would Have To Have Completely Forgotten The History Of Science So As To Not Remember That The Desire To Know Nature Has Had The Most Constant And The Happiest Influence On The Development Of Mathematics.

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.