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One Can't Teach A Cat Not To Catch Birds

There Is No Logical Way To The Discovery Of These Elemental Laws. There Is Only The Way Of Intuition, Which Is Helped By A Feeling For The Order Lying Behind The Appearance.

I Am Exclusively Occupied With The Problem Of Gravitation And Hope With The Help Of A Local Mathematician Friend [marcel Grossman] To Overcome All The Difficulties. One Thing Is Certain, However, That Never In Life Have I Been Quite So Tormented. A Great Respect For Mathematics Has Been Instilled Within Me, The Subtler Aspects Of Which, In My Stupidity, I Regarded Until Now As Pure Luxury.

To Put It Boldly, It Is The Attempt At A Posterior Reconstruction Of Existence By The Process Of Conceptualization.

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.