Pure Mathematics Is, In Its Way, The

... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

The Sole Function Of Education...[is] To Open The Way To Thinking And Knowing, And The School, As The Outstanding Organ For The People's Education, Must Serve That End Exclusively.

The Scientist Finds His Reward In What Henri Poincare Calls The Joy Of Comprehension, And Not In The Possibility Of Application To Which Any Discovery May Lead.

The Thing Is, Not To Stop Questioning.

Arrows Of Hate Have Been Aimed At Me Too, But They Have Never Hit Me, Because Somehow They Belonged To Another World With Which I Have No Connection Whatsoever.