Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.