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What Artistic And Scientific Experience Have In Common - Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking, And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science. If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, We Are Engaged In Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively As Meaninful, Then We Are Engaged In Art. Common To Both Is The Loving Devotion To That Which Transcends Personal Concerns And Volition.

If I Had It [life] To Do All Over Again, I'd Have Been A Plumber.

Most People Go On Living Their Everyday Life: Half-frightened, Half Indifferent, They Behold The Ghostly Tragic-comedy That Is Being Performed On The International Stage Before The Eyes And Ears Of The World.

I Do Not Believe In Immortality Of The Individual, And I Consider Ethics To Be An Exclusively Human Concern With No Superhuman Authority Behind It.

If You Want To Find Out Anything From The Theoretical Physicists About The Methods They Use, I Advise You To Stick Closely To One Principle: Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds. To Him Who Is A Discoverer In This Field The Products Of His Imagination Appear So Necessary And Natural That He Regards Them, And Would Like To Have Them Regarded By Others, Not As Creations Of Thought But As Given Realities.