Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.