“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

“We have a hunger of the mindWhich asks for knowledge all around usAnd the more we gain, the more is our desire.”

“The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

“Truth or myth, it is only for me to know. Come with me into the rich texture of Bizco's kingdom.”

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.”