Address at the Royal Albert Hall
Delivered in London on October 3, 1933, shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany, defending intellectual freedom and the humanistic role of science in preserving free civilization.
Full Transcript
I am glad that you have given me the opportunity of expressing to you my gratitude as a human being and as a man of science.
Without freedom there is no creation, no art, no science, no philosophy, and no progress. It is only in a atmosphere of free inquiry that the human mind can develop the insights that advance our understanding of nature and ourselves.
If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake, and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors won for us after hard struggles.
Defining Key Excerpts
"Without freedom there is no creation, no art, no science, no philosophy, and no progress."
"If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake."
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