"... nets, grids, and other types of..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.”

“We usually don't look. We overlook.”

“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”

“As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.”

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

“If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.”

“Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.”

“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.”