Letter to E. Holzapfel (Primary source)
Letter from Albert Einstein to E. Holzapfel, a student, on making a living as a scientist.
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“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. One could say that it has affected us quantitatively, not qualitatively.”
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— Albert Einstein Primary source“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
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