My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.