It Is Really A Puzzle What Drives

I Recently Discussed With An Intelligent And Well-disposed Man The Threat Of Another War, Which In My Opinion Would Seriously Endanger The Existence Of Mankind, And I Remarked That Only A Supranational Organization Would Offer Protection From That Danger. Thereupon My Visitor, Very Calmly And Coolly, Said To Me: "why Are You So Deeply Opposed To The Disappearance Of The Human Race?".

A New Idea Comes Suddenly And In A Rather Intuitive Way, But Intuition Is Nothing But The Outcome Of Earlier Intellectual Experience.

The Normal Objective Of My Thought Affords No Insight Into The Dark Places Of Human Will And Feeling.

Relations Between Pure And Applied Mathematicians Are Based On Trust And Understanding. Namely, Pure Mathematicians Do Not Trust Applied Mathematicians, And Applied Mathematicians Do Not Understand Pure Mathematicians.

I Am Exclusively Occupied With The Problem Of Gravitation And Hope With The Help Of A Local Mathematician Friend [marcel Grossman] To Overcome All The Difficulties. One Thing Is Certain, However, That Never In Life Have I Been Quite So Tormented. A Great Respect For Mathematics Has Been Instilled Within Me, The Subtler Aspects Of Which, In My Stupidity, I Regarded Until Now As Pure Luxury.