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It Must Be Conceded That A Theory Has An Important Advantage If Its Basic Concepts And Fundamental Hypotheses Are 'close To Experience,' And Greater Confidence In Such A Theory Is Certainly Justified. There Is Less Danger Of Going Completely Astray, Particularly Since It Takes So Much Less Time And Effort To Disprove Such Theories By Experience. Yet More And More, As The Depth Of Our Knowledge Increases, We Must Give Up This Advantage In Our Quest For Logical Simplicity In The Foundations Of Physical Theory.

The Highest Principles For Our Aspirations And Judgments Are Given To Us In The Jewish-christian Religious Tradition.

I Don't Teach My Students, I Provide The Circumstances In Which They Can Learn.

A Knowledge Of The Existence Of Something We Cannot Penetrate, Of The Manifestations Of The Profoundest Reason And The Most Radiant Beauty - It Is This Knowledge And This Emotion That Constitute The Truly Religious Attitude; In This Sense, And In This Alone, I Am A Deeply Religious Man.

A Society's Competitive Advantage Will Come Not From How Well Its Schools Teach The Multiplication And Periodic Tables, But From How Well They Stimulate Imagination And Creativity.