I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a "matter-of-fact" habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. <…> The frightful dilemma of the political world situation has much to do with this sin of omission on the part of our civilization. Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity.
Речь "The Need for Ethical Culture" в 1951 году на праздновании 75-летия Нью-Йоркского общества за этическую культуру
Часто ошибочно перефразируется примерно как: «Опасаюсь, что обязательно наступит день, когда технологии превзойдут простое человеческое общение. Тогда мир получит поколение идиотов.»
Высказывания по алфавиту
Источник: Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein by Carl Seelig, Crown Publishing Group, 1995.
