I Never Made One Of My Discoveries

We Must Learn The Difficult Lesson That The Future Of Mankind Will Only Be Tolerable When Our Course, In World Affairs As In Others, Is Based Upon Justice And Law Rather Than The Threat Of Naked Power.

I Was Very Pleased With Your Kind Letter. Until Now I Never Dreamed Of Being Something Like A Hero. But Since You've Given Me The Nomination I Feel That I Am One.

As For The Search For Truth, I Know From My Own Painful Searching, With Its Many Blind Alleys, How Hard It Is To Take A Reliable Step, Be It Ever So Small, Towards The Understanding Of That Which Is Truly Significant.

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.

When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.