“Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.”

“I do not know which impulse was stronger in me when I began to think: the original thirst for knowledge or the urge to communicate with man. Knowledge attains its full meaning only through the bond...”

“Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a discussion on paper, but had to prove its viability. Max Weber responded in great agitation: Commun...”

“Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. ”

“I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.”

“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophi...”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”

“You dont have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - theres a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.”

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”