The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light-only those who have experienced it can understand that.Īlthough I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever. I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.Īll that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.Ĭoncern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death. The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. The important thing is to not stop questioning. I believe in intuitions and inspirations.
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