Everyone Should Be Respected As An Individual,

Mathematics Deals Exclusively With The Relations Of Concepts To Each Other Without Consideration Of Their Relation To Experience.

Thus I Came...to A Deep Religiosity, Which, However, Reached An Abrupt End At The Age Of 12. Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books I Soon Reached A Conviction That Much In The Stories Of The Bible Could Not Be True....suspicion Against Every Kind Of Authority Grew Out Of This Experience...an Attitude Which Has Never Left Me.

The Contemplation Of This World Beckoned Like A Liberation

If I Am Right The Germans Will Say I Was A German, And The French Will Say I Was A Jew; If I Am Wrong The Germans Will Say I Was A Jew And The French Will Say I Was A German.

[kepler] Had To Realize Clearly That Logical-mathematical Theoretizing, No Matter How Lucid, Could Not Guarantee Truth By Itself; That The Most Beautiful Logical Theory Means Nothing In Natural Science Without Comparison With The Exactest Experience. Without This Philosophic Attitude, His Work Would Not Have Been Possible.