'The  orld a  I  see it  :

To be sure, it is not the fruits
of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to
understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive. It would surely be
absur
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure
and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the selfd to judge the value of the Talmud, for instance, by its intellectual fruits .P  9

Græco-Europeo-American culture as a whole, and in
particular its brilliant flowering in the Italian Renaissance, which put an end to
the stagnation of mediæval Europe, is based on the liberation and comparative
isolation of the individual    P 10

theoretical
knowledge has become vastly more profound in every department of science.
But the assimilative power of the human intellect is and remains strictly limited P 11

riddle: Question : What is a scientific author? Answer: A cross
between a mimosa and a porcupine(Berliner )P 13
Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of
Carnegie?p 17
A contemporary has said, not
unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are
the only profoundly religious people.p 20