If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

Am I, or the others crazy?