Originally Posted By: wheelz999
The great Albert Einstein? I would never questioned his intellectual capacity, but I lost respect for him, as I would any other person, when he signed on the dotted line for Roosevelt to create the atomic bomb, thenceforth dropping it on Japan. When his life was nearing end, he said "it was the one great mistake I made".


All true, but keep it in perspective. He was in Germany as the movement began and saw first hand the result on civil people when Hitler took over. He escaped but he, and others, rightly feared the Germans would have a bomb soon. He also was one of the few who could even imagine what this technology could do - in any hands.

He was a pacifist at heart, and that is the source of his guilt I imagine (and the deaths, of course).

But in terms of intellect, he must be classed as "great"...and very strange.

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