Society and the World

The dead level of provincial existence.

Debasing the moral currency.

A woman can hardly ever choose … she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

A woman can hardly ever choose … she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

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.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

E = mc 2 .

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.