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Man Like Every Other Animal Is By Nature Indolent. If Nothing Spurs Him On, Then He Will Hardly Think, And Will Behave From Habit Like An Automaton.

That's My Mathematician Who Examines Problems Which I Put Before Him And Checks Their Validity. You See, I Am Not Myself A Good Mathematician.

Intelligence Makes Clear To Us The Interrelationship Of Means And Ends. But Mere Thinking Cannot Give Us A Sense Of The Ultimate And Fundamental Ends. To Make Clear These Fundamental Ends And Valuations And To Set Them Fast In The Emotional Life Of The Individual, Seems To Me Precisely The Most Important Function Which Religion Has To Form In The Social Life Of Man.

Nevertheless, It Is Necessary To Remember That A Planned Economy Is Not Yet Socialism. A Planned Economy As Such May Be Accompanied By The Complete Enslavement Of The Individual. The Achievement Of Socialism Requires The Solution Of Some Extremely Difficult Socio-political Problems: How Is It Possible, In View Of The Far-reaching Centralisation Of Political And Economic Power, To Prevent Bureaucracy From Becoming All-powerful And Overweening? How Can The Rights Of The Individual Be Protected And Therewith A Democratic Counterweight To The Power Of Bureaucracy Be Assured?

Every Serious Scientific Worker Is Painfully Conscious Of This Involuntary Relegation To An Ever-narrowing Sphere Of Knowledge, Which Threatens To Deprive The Investigator Of His Broad Horizon And Degrades Him To The Level Of A Mechanic.