We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate.And they both are right and wrong. But the ancients were clearer, in so far as they recognized one clear conclusion, whereas in the modern system it should appear as though everything were explained.

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.

Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; perhaps science and industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world - I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which peace is the last thing that will find a home.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.