We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations.

Much later questions were raised whether the measurements had been accurate enough to support Einstein's theory. Their readings included the works of Henri Poincaré Ernst Mach and David Hume which influenced his scientific and philosophical outlook. Quantizing these oscillators each level will have an integer occupation number which will be the number of particles in it.

Later with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein was in support of defending the Allied forces but largely denounced using the new discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon and recommended that the U.