Ask Her To Wait A Moment -

It May Be True, That Men, Who Are Mere Mathematicians, Have Certain Specific Shortcomings, But That Is Not The Fault Of Mathematics, For It Is Equally True Of Every Other Exclusive Occupation.

To The Distracting Occupations Belong Especially My Lecture Courses Which I Am Holding This Winter For The First Time, And Which Now Cost Much More Of My Time Than I Like. Meanwhile I Hope That The Second Time This Expenditure Of Time Will Be Much Less, Otherwise I Would Never Be Able To Reconcile Myself To It, Even Practical (astronomical) Work Must Give Far More Satisfaction Than If One Brings Up To B A Couple More Mediocre Heads Which Otherwise Would Have Stopped At A.

The Infinite Is Only A Manner Of Speaking.

No Contradictions Will Arise As Long As Finite Man Does Not Mistake The Infinite For Something Fixed, As Long As He Is Not Led By An Acquired Habit Of Mind To Regard The Infinite As Something Bounded.

I Am Coming More And More To The Conviction That The Necessity Of Our Geometry Cannot Be Demonstrated, At Least Neither By, Nor For, The Human Intellect. . . Geometry Should Be Ranked, Not With Arithmetic, Which Is Purely Aprioristic, But With Mechanics.