jay's 10: einstein speaks to me

Published Thursday, December 15, 2005 by jay d | E-mail this post

1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

2. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

3. "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

4. "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."

5. "Never regard your study as a duty, but as the 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 work belongs."

6. "The most precious things in life are note those one gets for money."

7. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

8. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

9. "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."

10. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

2 Responses to “jay's 10: einstein speaks to me”

Anonymous on 11:45 AM, December 15, 2005

Yes there is no limitation to the self. Creativity and originality are in the imagination which dares to speculate upon that which is not yet.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of your probabilities.

But watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations.

If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be "automatically" materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms.

If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.
Anonymous on 12:10 PM, December 15, 2005

[who reads my blog???? and how did you find me?]

this is true. but to reflect on einstein's quote in a more optimistic light - without imagination, there would be no knowledge.

current knowledge would cease to exist if its past thinkers never imagined their probable positive outcomes.

keep imagining y'all!!

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