The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.