It Is Humankind's Duty To

Any Brief Military Advantage The Usa Might Gain With Nuclear Weapons Would Be Offset By Political And Psychological Losses And Damage To American Prestige. The United States Might Even Touch Off A Worldwide Armaments Race.

When Forced To Summarize The General Theory Of Relativity In One Sentence: Time And Space And Gravitation Have No Separate Existence From Matter.

The Relativity Principle In Connection With The Basic Maxwellian Equations Demands That The Mass Should Be A Direct Measure Of The Energy Contained In A Body; Light Transfers Mass. With Radium There Should Be A Noticeable Diminution Of Mass. The Idea Is Amusing And Enticing; But Whether The Almighty Is Laughing At It And Is Leading Me Up The Garden Path -- That I Cannot Know.

There Is A Race Between Mankind And The Universe. Mankind Is Trying To Build Bigger, Better, Faster, And More Foolproof Machines. The Universe Is Trying To Build Bigger, Better, And Faster Fools. So Far The Universe Is Winning.

The Supreme Goal Of All Theory Is To Make The Irreducible Basic Elements As Simple And As Few As Possible Without Having To Surrender The Adequate Representation Of A Simple Datum Of Experience.