A Cat Is Witty, He Has Nerve,

Most Striking At First Is The Appearance Of Sudden Illumination, A Manifest Sign Of Long Unconscious Prior Work.

The Task Of The Educator Is To Make The Child's Spirit Pass Again Where Its Forefathers Have Gone, Moving Rapidly Through Certain Stages But Suppressing None Of Them. In This Regard, The History Of Science Must Be Our Guide.

The Aim Of Science Is Not Things Themselves, As The Dogmatists In Their Simplicity Imagine, But The Relation Between Things.

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

The Scientist Does Not Study Nature Because It Is Useful To Do So. He Studies It Because He Takes Pleasure In It, And He Takes Pleasure In It Because It Is Beautiful. If Nature Were Not Beautiful It Would Not Be Worth Knowing, And Life Would Not Be Worth Living. I Am Not Speaking, Of Course, Of The Beauty Which Strikes The Senses, Of The Beauty Of Qualities And Appearances. I Am Far From Despising This, But It Has Nothing To Do With Science. What I Mean Is That More Intimate Beauty Which Comes From The Harmonious Order Of Its Parts, And Which A Pure Intelligence Can Grasp.