Quote of the Day (Albert Einstein, on Weak Character and ‘The Destruction of Our Intellectual Life’)

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.”— Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), speech in honor of Thomas Mann, January 1939, quoted by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (1994)