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From a clipping I found while filing at the office today:

Walter Stacy, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, wrote in 1930: "There are those who feel more deeply over religious matters than they do about secular things. It would be most unbelievable if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war to cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut." True enough, and a warning to reflect on Einstein's statement: "Science can only ascertain what is, not what should be."

Albert Einstein wrote in another letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium in 1932: "One has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly insignificant that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If such humility could be conveyed to everybody, the world of human activities would be more appealing."