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The World We Have Made As A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far Creates Problems That We Cannot Solve At The Same Level At Which We Have Created Them.... We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Humankind Is To Survive.

One Is Born Into A Herd Of Buffaloes And Must Be Glad If One Is Not Trampled Under Foot Before One's Time.

The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed To The Empty. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts — Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury—have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

The Formulation Of The Problem Is Often More Essential Than Its Solution, Which May Be Merely A Matter Of Mathematical Or Experimental Skill.