"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things."

"The greatest scientists are artists as well."