For Scientific Endeavor Is A

The World Is So Full Of Possibilities That Dogmatism Is Simply Indecent.

Great Spirits Often Meet Violent Oppisition With Mediocre Minds.

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Other Religions Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions.

By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Implies Also A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What On Has Recognized To Be True. It Is Evident That Any Restriction On Academic Freedom Acts In Such A Way As To Hamper The Dissemination Of Knowledge Among The People And Thereby Impedes National Judgment And Action.

In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.