The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

Reality favors symmetry.