Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without

The Comprehensibility Of The World Seems To Me A Wonder Or Eternal Secret. Here Lies The Sense Of Wonder Which Increases Even More With The Development Of Our Knowledge.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

Human Knowledge And Skills Alone Cannot Lead Humanity To A Happy And Dignified Life. Humanity Has Every Reason To Place The Proclaimers Of High Moral Standards And Values Above The Discoverers Of Objective Truth.

Insanity: Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Expecting Different Results.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work Is The] Most Profound And The Most Fruitful.