Knowledge is limited.
The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
No scientist thinks in formulae.
No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.
Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.