Incompetence Is The True Crisis.

If The Moon, In The Act Of Completing Its Eternal Way Around The Earth, Were Gifted With Self-consciousness, It Would Feel Thoroughly Convinced That It Was Traveling Its Way Of Its Own Accord On The Strength Of A Resolution Taken Once And For All. So Would A Being, Endowed With Higher Insight And More Perfect Intelligence, Watching Man And His Doings, Smile About Man's Illusion That He Was Acting According To His Own Free Will.

I Have Always Loved Solitude, A Trait Which Tends To Increase With Age.

Good Acts Are Like Good Poems. One May Easily Get Their Drift, But They Are Not Rationally Understood.

Now To The Term 'relativity Theory.' I Admit That It Is Unfortunate, And Has Given Occasion To Philosophical Misunderstandings.

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.