GREAT QUOTES FROM A GREAT SCIENTIST: ALBERT EINSTEIN!
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
We cannot solve problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
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.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Darwin's theory of the struggle for existence and the selectivity connected with it has by many people been cited as authorisation of the encouragement of the spirit of competition. Some people also in such a way have tried to prove pseudoscientifically the necessity of the destructive economic struggle of competition between individuals. But this is wrong, because man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a socially living animal. As little as a battle between ants of an ant hill is essential for survival, just so little is this the case with the individual members of a human community.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The important thing is never to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
We cannot solve problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
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.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Darwin's theory of the struggle for existence and the selectivity connected with it has by many people been cited as authorisation of the encouragement of the spirit of competition. Some people also in such a way have tried to prove pseudoscientifically the necessity of the destructive economic struggle of competition between individuals. But this is wrong, because man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a socially living animal. As little as a battle between ants of an ant hill is essential for survival, just so little is this the case with the individual members of a human community.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The important thing is never to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)
4 Comments:
Truly great quotes, indeed. In these times, they are even more meaningful.
Thanks, L.! Glad you like those. I will be putting up some quotes by another of my all-time favorites, H.L. Mencken during the next few days! Stay tuned.
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