The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

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