The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

- Rene Thom

The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I s…

- Rene Thom

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists o…

- Rene Thom

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

- Rene Thom

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

- Rene Thom

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

- Rene Thom

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

- Rene Thom

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

- Rene Thom

All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under c…

- Rene Thom