...and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.
There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.