The monstrous distortion of the patriotic sentiment, which is increasing, is killing off humanity.

Mankind is committing suicide, and our age is an agony." The two men had the same vision and said simultaneously: "A cancer, a cancer!" The older scientist grew animated, succumbing to the evidence.
"I know as well as you do that posterity will judge severely those who have made a fetich of the institutions of oppression and have cultivated and spread the ideas supporting them.

I know that the cure for an abuse does not begin until we refuse to submit to the cult that consecrates it.

And I, who have devoted myself for half a century to the great discoveries that have changed the face of the world, I know that in introducing an innovation one encounters the hostility of everything that is.
"I know it is a vice to spend years and centuries saying of progress, 'I should like it, but I do not want it.' But as for me, I have too many cares and too much work to do.

And then, as I told you, I am too old.