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Outside Russia, Lenin and Engels are of course not valued as scientific thinkers and no one would be interested in refuting them as such. The same might also be the case in Russia, except there one doesn’t dare say so.

From 1932, Einstein was making a point about the dangers of government suppression leading to an ill-informed populace.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Einstein believed that violence begets more violence, and so it is never a viable long-term solution to problems. This 1931 quote comes from “Notes on Pacifism.”

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

People are living now just as they were before… and it is clear that they have learned nothing from the horrors they have had to deal with. The little intrigues with which they had complicated their lives before are again taking up most of their thoughts. What a strange species we are.

Einstein gave his thoughts on post-World War II life in December, 1945.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Preceding generations have presented us, in a highly developed science and mechanical knowledge, with a most valuable gift which carries with it possibilities of making our life free and beautiful such as no previous generation has enjoyed. But this gift also brings with it dangers to our existence as great as any that have ever threatened it.

This quote is from the book The World As I See It , under the section Teachers and Pupils. This particular quote comes from Einstein’s Address to the Students’ Disarmament Meeting.

Probably the only project he ever gave up on was me. He tried to give me advice, but he

soon discovered that I was too stubborn and that he was just wasting his time.”

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. Geoffrey F.

Ptolemy made a universe, which lasted 1400 years. Newton also made a universe, which

lasted 300 years. Einstein has made a universe, and I can’t tell you how long that will last.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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