This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.