ME:
Good morning Professor Einstein, I’ve read that you are a very humble man, you treat everyone you meet with respect and deference – and enjoy passing the time of day with people from all walks of life.
EINSTEIN:
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university…I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university…I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
ME:
Well yes but it’s the way you respond to questions, especially questions related to your thoughts and theories – you make them so simple to understand……
Well yes but it’s the way you respond to questions, especially questions related to your thoughts and theories – you make them so simple to understand……
EINSTEIN:
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning…The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science"
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning…The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science"
ME:
See Professor, that’s what I mean…just in that answer are things to inspire and motivate, I believe, well not just me, the universe I think, that whatever field you chose to devote your life to would not only be the better for it, but mankind as a whole would be truly blessed as a result.
See Professor, that’s what I mean…just in that answer are things to inspire and motivate, I believe, well not just me, the universe I think, that whatever field you chose to devote your life to would not only be the better for it, but mankind as a whole would be truly blessed as a result.
EINSTEIN:
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music
ME:
Or a man of the cloth, you have amazing views on man and his relationship with God – I think you would have made a brilliant Pope or similar!.
Or a man of the cloth, you have amazing views on man and his relationship with God – I think you would have made a brilliant Pope or similar!.
EINSTEIN:
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
ME: Ohhh?
EINSTEIN:
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.
ME:
It’s very obvious you have done some very deep thinking on this, very, very deep indeed!.
It’s very obvious you have done some very deep thinking on this, very, very deep indeed!.
EINSTEIN:
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.
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.
ME:
Would you say that you are a happy person Professor Einstein?
Would you say that you are a happy person Professor Einstein?
EINSTEIN:
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
ME:
(smiling) Nothing I guess!.
(smiling) Nothing I guess!.
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