Ideas and Opinions.

"I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. . . " SPINOZA
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. . . "
"The trite objects of human efforts – possessions, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible."^1a 

"Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse."^1b PLATO RAND

" . . . [T]he scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by, each other."^1c ARISTOTLE BOOLE PLANCK WIGNER CRICK BROMLEY WATSON

" . . . [S]cience can only ascertain what is, but not what should be . . . Religion . . . deals only with evaluations of human thought and action . . . [S]cience can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspirations toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."^1d* ARISTOTLE

"A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long."^1e BUDDHA

• Albert Einstein, Germany and Switzerland. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1921/index.html
• FBI files regarding Albert Einstein, available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), January 28, 2000. Electronic Documents, 1427 pages, in PDF at http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/einstein.htm .
• The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, issued in London July 9, 1955, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm.
• Einstein Archives Online, a joint project of the Albert Einstein Archives and the David and Fela Shapell Digitization Project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, http://www.alberteinstein.info/.

* Italics in the original.

¹ Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Ideas and Opinions. Based on Mein Weltbild, edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources. New translations and revisions by Sonja Bargmann. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1954.
^a The World as I See It., at 8-11. Originally published in Forum and Century, Vol. 84, pp. 193-194, the 13th in the Forum series, "Living Philosophies"; included also in Living Philosophies (pp. 3-7), New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. 
^b On Wealth, at 12-13. Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934.
^c Science and Religion, Part I, at 41-44. From an address at Princeton Theological Seminary, May 19, 1939; published in Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.
^d Science and Religion, Part II, at 44-49. From Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium, published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.
^e Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?, at 49-52. A response to a greeting sent by the Liberal Ministers' Club of New York City; published in The Christian Register, June, 1948.

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