O, Youth: Do You Know That Yours

The Indifference, Callousness And Contempt That So Many People Exhibit Toward Animals Is Evil First Because It Results In Great Suffering In Animals, And Second Because It Results In An Incalculably Great Impoverishment Of The Human Spirit.

Anti-semitism Is Nothing But The Antagonistic Attitude Produced In The Non-jew By The Jewish Group. This Is A Normal Social Reaction. The Jewish Group Has Thrived On Oppression And On The Antagonism It Has Forever Met In The World... The Root Cause Is Their Use Of Enemies They Create In Order To Keep Solidarity.

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.

It Must Be Conceded That A Theory Has An Important Advantage If Its Basic Concepts And Fundamental Hypotheses Are 'close To Experience,' And Greater Confidence In Such A Theory Is Certainly Justified. There Is Less Danger Of Going Completely Astray, Particularly Since It Takes So Much Less Time And Effort To Disprove Such Theories By Experience. Yet More And More, As The Depth Of Our Knowledge Increases, We Must Give Up This Advantage In Our Quest For Logical Simplicity In The Foundations Of Physical Theory.

Thus I Came...to A Deep Religiosity, Which, However, Reached An Abrupt End At The Age Of 12. Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books I Soon Reached A Conviction That Much In The Stories Of The Bible Could Not Be True....suspicion Against Every Kind Of Authority Grew Out Of This Experience...an Attitude Which Has Never Left Me.