Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist,

It Takes A Touch Of Genius - And A Lot Of Courage To Move In The Opposite Direction.

Just As With The Man In The Fairy Tale Who Turned Whatever He Touched Into Gold, With Me Everything Is Turned Into Newspaper Clamor.

What Distinguishes The Language Of Science From Language As We Ordinarily Understand The Word? ... What Science Strives For Is An Utmost Acuteness And Clarity Of Concepts As Regards Their Mutual Relation And Their Correspondence To Sensory Data.

School Failed Me, And I Failed The School. It Bored Me. The Teachers Behaved Like Feldwebel (sergeants). I Wanted To Learn What I Wanted To Know, But They Wanted Me To Learn For The Exam. What I Hated Most Was The Competitive System There, And Especially Sports. Because Of This, I Wasn't Worth Anything, And Several Times They Suggested I Leave.

One Scientific Epoch Ended And Another Began With James Clerk Maxwell.