The Payment Of The Worker Is Not

The Work On Satisfactory Formulation Of Technical Patents Was A True Blessing For Me. It Compelled Me To Be Many-sided In Thought, And Also Offered Important Stimulation For Thought About Physics. Following A Practical Profession Is A Blessing For People Of My Type. Because The Academic Career Puts A Young Person In A Sort Of Compulsory Situation To Produce Scientific Papers In Impressive Quantity, A Temptation To Superficiality Arises That Only Strong Characters Are Able To Resist.

I Get The Most Joy In Life Out Of Music.

Don't Do Anything That Goes Against Your Conscience, Even If Your Country Says So.

Only The [catholic] Church Stood Squarely Across The Path Of Hitler’s Campaign For Suppressing Truth. I Never Had Any Special Interest In The Church Before, But Now I Feel A Great Affection And Admiration Because The Church Alone Has Had The Courage And Persistence To Stand For Intellectual Truth And Moral Freedom. I Am Forced Thus To Confess That What I Once Despised I Now Praise Unreservedly.

It Is My Conviction That Pure Mathematical Construction Enables Us To Discover The Concepts And The Laws Connecting Them, Which Gives Us The Key To The Understanding Of Nature ... In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold It True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.