Einstein & Bernstein

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.... Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman, 1946

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. I cannot rest passively with those who give up in the name of 'human nature.' Without growth, without metamorphosis, there is no godhead. If we believe that man can never achieve a society without wars, then we are condemned to wars forever. This is the easy way. But the laborious loving way, the way of dignity and divinity, presupposes a belief in our capacity for change.
-Leonard Bernstein