The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases..

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness.

It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences ….

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith..

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the un….

To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the gr….

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for ….

If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked r….

We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes s….

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring.