The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake..."

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."

"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."