Tech | March 14, 2009 | 17 comments

Happy Birthday Einstein!

source: http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

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Albert Einstein is 130 years old today, here are a few quotes:

"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."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"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."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"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."

"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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17 comments // Happy Birthday Einstein!

  • stewgame
  • shibumi0202
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      shibumi0202  

    • My favorite of these quotes is: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
      I have used this one at work, which make people stop and think.
      You were a wonderful, smart gentleman Mr. Einstein, Happy Birthday!

    • 2 years ago
  • PROYECTOarismuca
  • micycler
  • yesindeed
  • Sephroe
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      Sephroe  

    • Maybe it's a bit ironic but today is my birthday as well 3/14. Maybe I can use something of Einstein to become a better person myself.

    • 2 years ago
  • swami
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      swami  

    • There are two similar versions of a prominent Einstein quote on Buddhism floating around the web, reproducing themselves in viral fashion. They are:

      "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity."

      and:

      "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma 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. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."

    • 2 years ago
  • lucidstone
  • swami
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
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    • Gravitational Force of the Sun

      Pari Spolter

      Copyright © 1993 by Pari Spolter

      ISBN 0-9638107-5-8

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-85943

      (rev.5)

      Using extensive recent data, GRAVITATIONAL FORCE OF THE SUN presents the correct interpretation of Kepler’s third law.
      Pari Spolter has successfully attacked and destroyed Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation along with the gravitational constant and thrown Einstein and his pseudoscientific hypothetical equations on the junk heap of philosophical fraud.
      What Pari has discovered is that her equation for the gravitational force of the sun Fs = a.A is identical to the 390-year-old Kepler’s Third Law, which is r3/t2or "The square of the orbital periods of planets is directly proportional to the cubes of the semi-major axis of the orbits."
      What Pari has done is to formulate the equation of the least squares line of regression of the mean orbital velocity of each planet around the sun versus the mean distance of that planet to the sun which she states as Fs = a.A, or 'the gravitation force of the sun is equal to the acceleration times the area' of each planet. And the gravitational force of the sun turns out to be 4.16449 ± 0.00032 x 1020 m s-2 m2.
      She proves her equation by taking the 'acceleration' or the square of the mean orbital velocity of each planet and multiplying it by the mean distance (semimajor axis of revolution) of that planet. And the result is always the same: 4.1645 x 1020 m s-2 m2; the gravitational force of the sun.
      She further proves her equation by calculating Fs = a.A from the orbit of each artificial satellite orbiting the sun including the Luna 1, Pioneer 5, 6, and 7, Ranger 5, Mariner 2, 5, 6, and 7 and Mars 4. And the result is always the same: 4.16 x 1020 m s-2 m2; the gravitational force of the sun.
      What Pari does then is to compute the gravitational force of the sun using Newton’s force laws (either the Second Law or the Universal Law) with the mass of each planet given in the tables of the astronomical books.
      The gravitation force of the sun, calculated from Newton's equations, F = ma or F = GMm/r^2,is not constant and varies from 4.16 x 1023 kg m s-2 for Jupiter to 5.69 .................................................

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • Highr0ller:

      And this is consistent with what evidence?

      The planet's orbits have been proven to not be perfect.

      Kepler's laws were based on a perfect, divine universe, which is why they're incorrect.

      Oh god, why I am even bothering with you.

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • Truly an amazing man.

      Both a great scientist and a great humanitarian.

      Happy b-day Einstein, if only you could see where quantum mechanics has taken relativity today.

    • 2 years ago
  • Scarabus
  • lucidstone
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      lucidstone  

    • "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

      The idea of the infinite universe is not really applicable under a quantum understanding of the universe.

      If everything in the universe has a lower limit of measurement, including space, time, and energy, then everything would have a finite number, including the universe.

      Infinity is just a lovely tool in mathematics that substitutes for an unknown number large enough to complete an equation.

      Then again though, Einstein didn't quite accept quantum mechanics.

      Happy Birthday Albert! =)

    • 2 years ago
  • Scarabus
  • clownpuncher
  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  

    • Simple as possible was my favorite,An intelligent fool just beat it away...........
      .....................................Happy Birthday Al!

    • 2 years ago
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