Tag: Albert Einstein

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

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The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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