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#AlbertEinstein, when he arrived in America, was shocked at how Black Americans were treated. “There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States," he said. "That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.” And, he wasn't.

“If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? Nay, more, has this right way any existence outside our illusions? … I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. … In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.”
— Albert Einstein (10 June 1933)
On the Methods of Theoretical Physics
Herbert Spencer Lecture, University of Oxford
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