Our Separation From Each Other Is An

Time And Space Are Modes By Which We Think And Not Conditions In Which We Live.

It Is A Very Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty. To The Contrary, I Believe It Would Be Possible To Rob Even A Healthy Beast Of Prey Of Its Voraciousness, If It Were Possible, With The Aid Of A Whip, To Force The Beast To Devour Continuously, Even When Not Hungry.

It Is Every Man's Obligation To Put Back Into The World At Least The Equivalent Of What He Takes Out Of It.

The Formulation Of The Problem Is Often More Essential Than Its Solution, Which May Be Merely A Matter Of Mathematical Or Experimental Skill.

It Seems To Me That The Idea Of A Personal God Is An Anthropological Concept Which I Cannot Take Seriously. I Feel Also Not Able To Imagine Some Will Or Goal Outside The Human Sphere. My Views Are Near Those Of Spinoza: Admiration For The Beauty Of And Belief In The Logical Simplicity Of The Order Which We Can Grasp Humbly And Only Imperfectly. I Believe That We Have To Content Ourselves With Our Imperfect Knowledge And Understanding And Treat Values And Moral Obligations As A Purely Human Problem-the Most Important Of All Human Problems.