“At the beginning of this debate Stephen said that he thinks that he is a positivist, whereas I am a Platonist.”

“For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole.”

“He may even appear as Platonist or Pythagorean insofar as he considers the viewpoint of logical simplicity as an indispensable and effective tool of his research.”