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We Have Penetrated Far Less Deeply Into The Regularities Obtaining Within The Realm Of Living Things, But Deeply Enough Nevertheless To Sense At Least The Rule Of Fixed Necessity... What Is Still Lacking Here Is A Grasp Of The Connections Of Profound Generality, But Not A Knowledge Of Order Itself.

To Be Sure, The Doctrine Of A Personal God Interfering With Natural Events Could Never Be Refuted, In The Real Sense, By Science, For This Doctrine Can Always Take Refuge In Those Domains In Which Scientific Knowledge Has Not Yet Been Able To Set Foot.

What Is Inconceivable About The Universe Is That It Is At All Conceivable.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

It Is Impossible To Solve Significant Problems Using The Same Knowledge That Created Them.