The Mind Uses Its Faculty For Creativity

Need We Add That Mathematicians Themselves Are Not Infallible?

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.

Einstein Does Not Remain Attached To The Classical Principles, And When Presented With A Problem In Physics He Quickly Envisages All Of Its Possibilities. This Leads Immediately In His Mind To The Prediction Of New Phenomena Which May One Day Be Verified By Experiment.

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

Mathematics Is The Art Of Giving The Same Name To Different Things.