Who Would Have Thought Around 1900 That

I Believe, Indeed, That Overemphasis On The Purely Intellectual Attitude, Often Directed Solely To The Practical And Factual, In Our Education, Has Led Directly To The Impairment Of Ethical Values. I Am Not Thinking So Much Of The Dangers With Which Technical Progress Has Directly Confronted Mankind, As Of The Stifling Of Mutual Human Considerations By A 'matter-of-fact' Habit Of Thought Which Has Come To Lie Like A Killing Frost Upon Human Relations. Without 'ethical Culture' There Is No Salvation For Humanity.

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or, For That Matter, Of The Life Of Any Creature? To Know The Answer To This Question Means To Be Religious. You Ask: Does It Make Any Sense, Then, To Pose This Question? I Answer: The Man Who Regards His Fellow Creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unhappy But Hardly Fit For Life.

In Science, Moreover, The Work Of The Individual Is So Bound Up With That Of His Scientific Predecessors And Contemporaries That It Appears Almost As An Impersonal Product Of His Generation.

Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without Conceptions Is Blind.

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.