The belief on which our faith in science is based has remained to this day a metaphysical belief-even we knowers of to-day, we godless foes of metaphysics, we too take our fire from that conflagration which was kindled by a thousand-year-old faith, from that Christian belief, which was also Plato's belief, the belief that God is truth, that truth is divine....
Zientziarekiko gure sinesmena sinesmen metafisiko batean dago beti bermaturik-guk ere egungo ezagutzaren gizakiok, guk ateo eta antimetafisikook, guk ere geure garra milaka urtetako sinesmen batek, Platonen sinesmena ere izan zen sinesmen kristau hark irazekitako su hartatik ateratzen dugu, Jainkoa egia delako, egia jainkozkoa delako sinestetik...