Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Newton, forgive me.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.