It Is Nothing Short Of A Miracle

One Should Not Pursue Goals That Are Easily Achieved. One Must Develop An Instinct For What One Can Just Barely Achieve Through One’s Greatest Efforts.

[kepler] Had To Realize Clearly That Logical-mathematical Theoretizing, No Matter How Lucid, Could Not Guarantee Truth By Itself; That The Most Beautiful Logical Theory Means Nothing In Natural Science Without Comparison With The Exactest Experience. Without This Philosophic Attitude, His Work Would Not Have Been Possible.

The Only Way To Escape The Personal Corruption Of Praise Is To Go On Working. One Is Tempted To Stop And Listen To It. The Only Thing Is To Turn Away And Go On Working. Work. There Is Nothing Else.

How Vile And Despicable War Seems To Me! I Would Rather Be Hacked To Pieces Than Take Part In Such An Abominable Business.

We Have Penetrated Far Less Deeply Into The Regularities Obtaining Within The Realm Of Living Things, But Deeply Enough Nevertheless To Sense At Least The Rule Of Fixed Necessity... What Is Still Lacking Here Is A Grasp Of The Connections Of Profound Generality, But Not A Knowledge Of Order Itself.