Who Would Have Thought Around 1900 That

There Is, However, A Somber Point In The Social Outlook Of Americans. Their Sense Of Equality And Human Dignity Is Mainly Limited To People Of White Skin.... The More I Feel Like An American, The More The Situation Pains Me.

What Artistic And Scientific Experience Have In Common - Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking, And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science. If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, We Are Engaged In Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively As Meaninful, Then We Are Engaged In Art. Common To Both Is The Loving Devotion To That Which Transcends Personal Concerns And Volition.

The Splitting Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except For How We Think.

We All Try To Escape Pain And Death, While We Seek What Is Pleasant.

I Made One Great Mistake In My Life-when I Signed The Letter To President Roosevelt Recommending That Atom Bombs Be Made But There Was Some Justification-the Danger That The Germans Would Make Them.