If People Are Good Because

My Only Refuge, As A Serious Young Man, From The Despair Of My Financial Burden To My Family, Is That I Did Everything I Could To Never Permit Myself Any Amusements Or Diversions Except Those Afforded By My Studies.

This Has Been Done Elegantly By Minkowski; But Chalk Is Cheaper Than Grey Matter, And We Will Do It As It Comes.

The Discovery Of Nuclear Reactions Need Not Bring About The Destruction Of Mankind Any More Than The Discovery Of Matches.

I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

I Do Not Play Games. There Is Not Time For It. When I Get Through With Work, I Don't Want Anything That Requires The Working Of The Mind.