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I Was Very Pleased With Your Kind Letter. Until Now I Never Dreamed Of Being Something Like A Hero. But Since You've Given Me The Nomination I Feel That I Am One.

Scientific Greatness Is Less A Matter Of Intelligence Than Character; If The Scientist Refuses To Compromise Or Accept Incomplete Answers And Persists In Grappling The Most Basic And Difficult Questions.

What A Deep Faith In The Rationality Of The Structure Of The World And What A Longing To Understand Even A Small Glimpse Of The Reason Revealed In The World There Must Have Been In Kepler And Newton To Enable Them To Unravel The Mechanism Of The Heavens In Long Years Of Lonely Work!

Never Do Anything Against Conscience Even If The State Demands It.

Is It Not A Terrible Thing To Be Forced By Society To Do Things Which All Of Us As Individuals Regard As Abominable Crimes?