As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment. . . There was no … - Chaim Weizmann

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What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Chaim Weizmann

As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment. . . There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

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Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

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We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not. . . You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

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The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'. . . . From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people. . . The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world. . . Only the branch of the young shall survive. . . They have to accept it.

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There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs. . . . In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering.

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Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

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