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Words From A Patent Clerk

 Journal

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. The […]