One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.
A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
