the wise words of...
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
on ...
Knowledge
The World
People and Life
Math and Science and Education
People and Life:
- "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
- "I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough."
- "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for
nothing."
- "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds."
- "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
-
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to
explain in terms of chemistry
and physics so important a
biological phenomenon as first love?"
- "My
religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the
slight details we
are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
- "The
release of atom power has changed everything except our way
of thinking...the solution to this
problem lies in the heart of
mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a
watchmaker."
- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence."
- "The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead: his eyes are closed."
- "Now he has departed from this strange world a little
ahead of
me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics,
know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is
only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
- "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.
You pull his tail in New York and
his head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly
the
same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The
only difference is that there is no
cat."
- "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe,
a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings 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."
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