Point Set Topology Is A Disease From

The Advance Of Science Is Not Comparable To The Changes Of A City, Where Old Edifices Are Pitilessly Torn Down To Give Place To New, But To The Continuous Evolution Of Zoologic Types Which Develop Ceaselessly And End By Becoming Unrecognisable To The Common Sight, But Where An Expert Eye Finds Always Traces Of The Prior Work Of The Centuries Past. One Must Not Think Then That The Old-fashioned Theories Have Been Sterile And Vain.

If Nature Were Not Beautiful, It Would Not Be Worth Knowing, And If Nature Were Not Worth Knowing, Life Would Not Be Worth Living

Thus, Be It Understood, To Demonstrate A Theorem, It Is Neither Necessary Nor Even Advantageous To Know What It Means.

One Does Not Ask Whether A Scientific Theory Is True, But Only Whether It Is Convenient.

A Scientist Worthy Of His Name, About All A Mathematician, Experiences In His Work The Same Impression As An Artist; His Pleasure Is As Great And Of The Same Nature.