At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.