What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.