Curiosity Is Its Own Reason.

The Release Of Atomic Energy Has Not Created A New Problem. It Has Merely Made More Urgent The Necessity Of Solving An Existing One.

I Agree With Schopenhauer That One Of The Most Powerful Motives That Attracts People To Science And Art Is The Longing To Escape From Everyday Life.

I Think That A Particle Must Have A Separate Reality Independent Of The Measurements. That Is An Electron Has Spin, Location And So Forth Even When It Is Not Being Measured. I Like To Think That The Moon Is There Even If I Am Not Looking At It.

Although I Tried To Be Universal In Thought, I Am European By Instinct And Inclination.

We Come Now To The Question: What Is A Priori Certain Or Necessary, Respectively In Geometry (doctrine Of Space) Or Its Foundations? Formerly We Thought Everything; Nowadays We Think Nothing. Already The Distance-concept Is Logically Arbitrary; There Need Be No Things That Correspond To It, Even Approximately.