Rene Thom Quotes

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.