Words From A Patent Clerk
Written on Apr 13th, 2009
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 […]
