The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Dyson Freeman & Einstein Albert

Author:Dyson, Freeman & Einstein, Albert [Dyson, Freeman & Einstein, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology, Science, Quotations, Physics, Biography, History, Reference, General
ISBN: 9780691138176
Google: WLumDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0691138176
Goodreads: 8629453
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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The Quotations

attracts moral inferiors. Time has proved that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Ibid.

*I would never participate in [an ineffectual conference]. It would be like organizing a conference to stop volcanoes from erupting or to increase rain in the Sahara.

To Henri Barbusse, April 20, 1932. Einstein Archives 34-533

*Only in a free society is man able to create the inventions and cultural values which make life worthwhile to modern man.

From a speech in the Royal Albert Hall, “Science and Civilization,” October 3, 1933. Published in 1934 as “Europe’s Danger–Europe’s Hope.” Reprinted in Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics, 280. Einstein Archives 28-253

Nationalism is, in my opinion, nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

From the second draft of the speech in the Royal Albert Hall, London, October 3, 1933. Quoted in Nathan and Norden, Einstein on Peace, 242. Einstein Archives 28-254

*If, as seems likely, the great-power democracies henceforth act with neutrality against Hitler’s Germany, this breeding ground of disease will soon pose a grave moral and political danger for the rest

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