me that the lack of conformity between the answers and my questions

arose not by the fault of science but from my ignorance, but the

matter was for me not a game or an amusement but one of life and

death, and I was involuntarily brought to the conviction that my

questions were the only legitimate ones, forming the basis of all

knowledge, and that I with my questions was not to blame, but

science if it pretends to reply to those questions.

My question -- that which at the age of fifty brought me to