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Shortly before his death,
Einstein raised his voice
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for the last time to tell the world
of the tragedy of a modern scientist.
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This was his testament:
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''The fate of a modern scientist
is tragic.
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His inspiration leads him to clarity
and inner independence.
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By almost superhuman efforts
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he had forged a weapon
of his own social enslavement
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and destruction of his personality.
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The situation even reached a point
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where the political authorities
had muzzled him.
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Has the time really passed
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when the scientist's intellectual
freedom and independent research
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could enlighten
and enrich people's lives?
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Has he forgotten, in his blind
quest for the scientific truth,
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about his moral responsibility before
humanity and about his honour?
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Our world is under threat of a crisis
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the scope of which seems not to be
realized by those in authority...
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The released power of the atom changed
everything but our way of thinking,
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and thus we keep sliding down to
a catastrophe never seen heretofore.