Need We Add That Mathematicians Themselves Are

A Very Small Cause, Which Escapes Us, Determines A Considerable Effect Which We Cannot Ignore, And We Say That This Effect Is Due To Chance.

Thought Is Only A Flash Between Two Long Nights, But This Flash Is Everything.

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

Mathematicians Do Not Study Objects, But Relations Among Objects; They Are Indifferent To The Replacement Of Objects By Others As Long The Relations Don't Change. Matter Is Not Important, Only Form Interests Them.

Einstein Does Not Remain Attached To The Classical Principles, And When Presented With A Problem In Physics He Quickly Envisages All Of Its Possibilities. This Leads Immediately In His Mind To The Prediction Of New Phenomena Which May One Day Be Verified By Experiment.