Strange As It May Sound, The Power

The Fact Is, Every Thinker, Every Philosopher, The Moment He Is Forced To Abandon His One-sided Intellectual Occupation By Practical Necessity, Immediately Returns To The General Point Of View Of Mankind.

Thought Experiment Is In Any Case A Necessary Precondition For Physical Experiment. Every Experimenter And Inventor Must Have The Planned Arrangement In His Head Before Translating It Into Fact.

Science Always Has Its Origin In The Adaptation Of Thought To Some Definite Field Of Experience.

The Task Which We Have Set Ourselves Is Simply To Show Why And For What Purpose We Hold That Standpoint During Most Of Our Lives, And Why And For What Purpose We Are Provisionally Obliged To Abandon It.

When I Recall Today My Early Youth, I Should Take The Boy That I Then Was, With The Exception Of A Few Individual Features, For A Different Person, Were It Not For The Existence Of The Chain Of Memories.