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An Important Advance In The Life Of A People Is The Transformation Of The Religion Of Fear Into The Moral Religion. But One Must Avoid The Prejudice That Regards The Religions Of Primitive Peoples As Pure Fear Religions And Those Of The Civilized Races As Pure Moral Religions. All Are Mixed Forms, Though The Moral Element Predominates In The Higher Levels Of Social Life. Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of The Idea Of God.

I Owe As Much Of My Success To An Uncompromising Obstinacy As To Any Original Ideas.

I Am Exclusively Occupied With The Problem Of Gravitation And Hope With The Help Of A Local Mathematician Friend [marcel Grossman] To Overcome All The Difficulties. One Thing Is Certain, However, That Never In Life Have I Been Quite So Tormented. A Great Respect For Mathematics Has Been Instilled Within Me, The Subtler Aspects Of Which, In My Stupidity, I Regarded Until Now As Pure Luxury.

Mankind Must Give Up War In The Atomic Era. What Is At Stake Is The Life Or Death Of Humanity.

Compassionate People Are Geniuses In The Art Of Living, More Necessary To The Dignity, Security, And Joy Of Humanity Than The Discoverers Of Knowledge.