Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All

In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

The Essentials Of Being A Person Of My Type Lies Precisely In What They Think And How They Think, Not In What They Do. Your Thoughts Shape You.

However We Select From Nature A Complex [of Phenomena] Using The Criterion Of Simplicity, In No Case Will Its Theoretical Treatment Turn Out To Be Forever Appropriate (sufficient).... I Do Not Doubt That The Day Will Come When [general Relativity], Too, Will Have To Yield To Another One, For Reasons Which At Present We Do Not Yet Surmise. I Believe That This Process Of Deepening Theory Has No Limits.

The Leaves And The Light Are One.

It Is Just As Important To Make Knowledge Live And Keep It Alive As To Solve Specific Problems.