Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

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

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Nobody should be alone, " Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences.

If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support

We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

Stefan G. Bucher is a man possessed.