Thinking, God, light, truth, deduction, electricity, magnetism, gravity, space, time, relativity, brownian motion, a unified field theory, mathematics, physics, astronomy, human rights, pacifism, violin, sailing, long walks, studying, not quantum mechanics! (just kidding), and redefining our perception of nature.
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From the first humans to today's most experienced astronomers, we all stand in awe like curious children before the majesty of the starry nighttime sky. Little else we experience in life can compare with this feeling and for millions of years our goal has been understanding. The free Astronomy software, which you can download at the link below, is an interactive map which will familiarize you with the constellations and help you locate the moon, planets, nebulas, galaxies, and many other celestial objects on any given night. Go ahead, expand your mind...
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"Einstein Revealed" (Nova), "Einstein's Big Idea" (Nova), "Biography - Albert Einstein" (A&E), "Stephen Hawking's Universe" (PBS), "The Elegant Universe" (Nova), "The Creation of the Universe" (PBS), "Cosmic Voyage" (IMAX)
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
We all appear here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why. To me it's enough to wonder at the secrets.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Out yonder, there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great eternal riddle...The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation...
People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe, is that it is comprehensible.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Once you accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
It is only to the individual that the soul is given.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
GOD may be subtle, but not malicious.
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.
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a print shop.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.
Never regard study as a hard duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn, to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
If a man who is fabulously rich never spent or gave away a cent, then no one could tell how rich he was or even whether he had any money at all. It is the same with matter. So long as none of the energy is given off externally, it cannot be observed.
Gravity - An object marks its place in the fabric of space-time with a dent, a pocket, into which other objects that pass within its sphere must fall.
A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Books Written by Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory, The Meaning of Relativity, The Principle of Relativity, The World As I See It, Ideas and Opinions, Out of My Later Years, The Evolution of Physics
Others: Einstein - His Life and Universe, The Human Side, Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics, Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement, Autobiographical Notes, Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity, The Expanded Quotable Einstein, The Einstein Reader, Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Baruch de Spinoza, René Descartes, Archimedes of Syracuse, Euclid of Alexandria, Pythagoras of Samos, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, Neils Bohr, Marrie Currie, Leonardo Da Vinci, Edwin Hubble, Mohandas Gandhi...and every other human. MyGen Profile Generator