Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

The teacher, like the artist, the philosopher, and the man of letters, can only perform his work adequately if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.