I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.