Les Faits Ne Parlent Pas. Facts Do

Often When Works At A Hard Question, Nothing Good Is Accomplished At The First Attack. Then One Takes A Rest, Long Or Short, And Sits Down Anew To The Work. During The First Half-hour, As Before, Nothing Is Found, And Then All Of A Sudden The Decisive Idea Presents Itself To The Mind.

To Invent Is To Discern, To Choose.

Just As Houses Are Made Of Stones, So Is Science Made Of Facts.

I Entered An Omnibus To Go To Some Place Or Other. At That Moment When I Put My Foot On The Step The Idea Came To Me, Without Anything In My Former Thoughts Seeming To Have Paved The Way For It, That The Transformations I Had Used To Define The Fuchsian Functions Were Identical With Non-euclidean Geometry.

It Is By Logic We Prove. It Is By Intuition We Discover.