A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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.