FWD: Einstein speaking

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> Von:
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Januar 2002 04:42
> An: loving-what-is at yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: [Loving-what-is] hmmm

> -- Albert Einstein

> The significant problems we face cannot be solved
> at the same level of thinking that we used to create them...

>
> "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,
> they are not certain, and as far as they are certain,
> they do not refer to reality."

>
> "Peace cannot be kept by force.
> It can only be achieved by understanding."

>
> "Not everything that counts can be counted,
> and not everything that can be counted counts."
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

>
> "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."

>
>"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."

>
> "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."

>
> "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge
> of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the
> laughter of the gods."



Kurt-Werner Pörtner
 
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