A Small Error In The Former Will

Thought Is Only A Flash Between Two Long Nights, But This Flash Is Everything.

We Also Know How Cruel The Truth Often Is, And We Wonder Whether Delusion Is Not More Consoling.

One Does Not Ask Whether A Scientific Theory Is True, But Only Whether It Is Convenient.

All That We Can Hope From These Inspirations, Which Are The Fruits Of Unconscious Work, Is To Obtain Points Of Departure For Such Calculations. As For The Calculations Themselves, They Must Be Made In The Second Period Of Conscious Work Which Follows The Inspiration, And In Which The Results Of The Inspiration Are Verified And The Consequences Deduced.‎

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.