Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

— Albert Einstein, Speech to students at the California Institute of Technology (1931)

Source: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A1FFF3F5E1B7A93C5A81789D85F458385F9&scp=4&sq=&st=p

Reported in The New York Times, 16 February 1931.

Topics: life