Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me.
- Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.