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On People

	The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.
	"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
	"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
	"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
	"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
	"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
	"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security."
	"So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me."
	Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-- unless it is an enemy.
	"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."

	"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
	"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age."
	"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
	"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
	To concentrate on the problems and aspirations which all thinking men share creates a sense of comradeship that is eventually bound to reunite scholars and artists of all nations.
	Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
	He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man
can bear.

On Humanity

	We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
	It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
	A large part of history is replete with the struggle for human rights, an eternal struggle in which final vistory can never be won. But to tire in that struggle would mean the ruin of society.
	The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
	Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
	Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
	Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
	It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
	It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
	The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
	"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
	I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives - the disastrous by-product of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
	I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only thing that can lead us to find ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with the moneybags of Carnegie?

On Life

	"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
	"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
	"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
	"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
	"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
	"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
	"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
	"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
	"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
	"It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing."
	"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
	The most precious things in life are not those one gets for money.
	Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
	The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

On How One Should Live One's Life

	"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."
	The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
	Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
	"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value (or "virtue")."

On the Universe and Nature

	"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
	"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
	"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
	Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
	For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.
	To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
	"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."

On Time and Reality

	"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
	"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
	"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
	One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
	A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

On God

	"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
	"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
	"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
	"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
	"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."
	"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
	Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
	I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
	We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.
	I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.

On Creativity and Knowledge

	"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
	"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
	"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
	"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
	"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
	"The only source of knowledge is experience"
	"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
	"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
	"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
	"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why".
	The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
	It is better for people to be like the beasts...they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.
	Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
	We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
	Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

On Education and Learning

	"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
	"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
	"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
	"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
	"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
	"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
	"If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants."
	"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
	Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.

On Teaching and Teachers

	"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable
gift and not as a hard duty."
	"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
	"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
	"To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject."
	"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
	Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
	Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
	The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
	In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive".
	Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
	Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

On the value of Simplicity and Truth

	If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
	"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
	"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."
	I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
	The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
	The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
	Truth is what stands the test of experience.

On Himself

	"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater."
	"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If
only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
	"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
	"When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."
	"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
	I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
	"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
	Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help in the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
	"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."
	"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
	"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
	"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life
are based on the labors of others ."
	"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral
universe within."
	"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
	"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
	"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
	I love to travel, But hate to arrive.
	I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
	As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
	I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
	I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
	With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
	I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
	I don't believe in mathematics.
	I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
	It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
	A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
	The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
	You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

On Science and Religion

	"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
	"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
	"The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive."
	"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research."
	"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
	Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

On Science

	"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
	"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
	"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
	"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
	"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity."
	"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
	"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
	"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
	Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms. For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
	"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
	After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
	You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal
environment.
	"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."

On Religion

	"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
	"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
	"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
	"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
	Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
	"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
	There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion
	Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me
	How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.  
	People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
	Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
	"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men."
	"The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
	"Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."
	"If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be
characterised as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual."

On Love

	“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
	"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
	Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.
	Lasting harmony with a woman(was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
	Where there is love there is no question.

On Politics and the Beurocracy of Society

	"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
	"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
	Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind.
	Politics is more difficult than physics.
	Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
	"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
	Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this county is closely related with this.

On War

	"It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a reqime that does not maintain any military secrets."
	"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
	"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
	"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
	"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
	"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
	So long as there are men there will be wars.
	Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
	"One does not make wars less likely by formulating rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated..." 
	"Mankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government."
	"Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being should assume in time of peace, the solemn and unconditional obligation not to participate in any war, for any reason or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect."
	The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.
	He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
	The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
	My pacificism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
	There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
	It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
	"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
	"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
	Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
	"Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."
	As long as armies exist, any serious conflict will lead to war.

On other stuff

	"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

	Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

	A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

	"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

	When Einstein died on April 18, 1955 he left a piece of writing ending in an unfinished sentence. There were his last words:
   In essence, the conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed. Despite this knowledge, statesmen in responsible positions on both sides continue to employ the
well-known technique of seeking to intimidate and demoralize the opponent by marshaling superior military strength. They do so even though such a policy entails the risk of war and doom. Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only course that holds out any promise of peace, the course of supranational security, since for a statesman to follow such a course would be tantamount to political suicide. Political passions, once they have been fanned into flame, exact their victims ... Citater fra...