From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest

The Best That Gauss Has Given Us Was Likewise An Exclusive Production. If He Had Not Created His Geometry Of Surfaces, Which Served Riemann As A Basis, It Is Scarcely Conceivable That Anyone Else Would Have Discovered It. I Do Not Hesitate To Confess That To A Certain Extent A Similar Pleasure May Be Found By Absorbing Ourselves In Questions Of Pure Geometry.

Matter Is Spirit Reduced To Point Of Visibility.

My Pacifism Is An Instinctive Feeling, A Feeling That Possesses Me Because The Murder Of Men Is Disgusting. My Attitude Is Not Derived From Any Intellectual Theory But Is Based On My Deepest Antipathy To Every Kind Of Cruelty And Hatred.

The Only Rational Way Of Educating Is To Be An Example. If One Can't Help It, A Warning Example.

Knowledge Is Realizing That The Street Is One Way; Wisdom Is Looking In Both Directions Anyway.