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But There Is Another Reason For The High Repute Of Mathematics: It Is Mathematics That Offers The Exact Natural Sciences A Certain Measure Of Security Which, Without Mathematics, They Could Not Attain.

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

If We Think Of The Field As Being Removed, There Is No 'space' Which Remains, Since Space Does Not Have An Independent Existence.

An Empty Stomach Is Not A Good Political Adviser.

Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.