Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.