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enjoy lots of Einstein's quotes;

Everyone is a genius. But if
you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it will live its
whole life believing that it is
stupid'.
great mind has always encounter
opposition from weak & lazy
folks
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."
"Gravitation is not
responsible for people
falling in love."
"I want to know God's
thoughts; the rest are
details."
"The hardest thing in
the world to understand
is the income tax."
"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 am convinced that He
(God) does not play
dice."
"God is subtle but he is
not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude
becomes weakness of
character."
"I never think of the
future. It comes soon
enough."
"The eternal mystery of
the world is its
comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays
most for the things one
gets for nothing."
"Science without
religion is lame.
Religion without science
is blind."
"Anyone who has never
made a mistake has
never tried anything
new."
"Great spirits have often
encountered violent
opposition from weak
minds."
"Everything should be
made as simple as
possible, but not
simpler."
"Common sense is the
collection of prejudices
acquired by age
eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful
thing if one does not
have to earn one's living
at it."
"The secret to creativity
is knowing how to hide
your sources."
"The only thing that
interferes with my
learning is my
education."
"God does not care
about our mathematical
difficulties. He
integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is
nothing more than a
refinement of everyday
thinking."
"Technological progress
is like an axe in the
hands of a pathological
criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept
by force. It can only be
achieved by
understanding."
"The most
incomprehensible thing
about the world is that
it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve
problems by using the
same kind of thinking
we used when we
created them."
"Education is what
remains after one has
forgotten everything he
learned in school."
"The important thing is
not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own
reason for existing."
"Do not worry about
your difficulties in
Mathematics. I can
assure you mine are still
greater."
"Equations are more
important to me,
because politics is for
the present, but an
equation is something
for eternity."
"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."
"Two things are infinite:
the universe and human
stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the the
universe."
"As far as the laws of
mathematics refer to
reality, they are not
certain, as far as they
are certain, they do not
refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to
set himself up as a
judge of Truth and
Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the
laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what
weapons World War III
will be fought, but
World War IV will be
fought with sticks and
stones."
"In order to form an
immaculate member of
a flock of sheep one
must, above all, be a
sheep."
"The fear of death is the
most unjustified of all
fears, for there's no risk
of accident for someone
who's dead."
"Too many of us look
upon Americans as
dollar chasers. This is a
cruel libel, even if it is
reiterated thoughtlessly
by the Americans
themselves."
"Heroism on command,
senseless violence, and
all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by
the name of patriotism
-- how passionately I
hate them!"
"No, this trick won't
work...How on earth
are you ever going to
explain in terms of
chemistry and physics
so important a
biological phenomenon
as first love?"
"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."
"Yes, we have to divide
up our time like that,
between our politics
and our equations. But
to me our equations are
far more important, for
politics are only a
matter of present
concern. A
mathematical equation
stands forever."
"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."
"Great spirits have
always found violent
opposition from
mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it
when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices
but honestly and
courageously uses his
intelligence."
"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."
"The further the
spiritual evolution of
mankind advances, the
more certain it seems to
me that the path to
genuine religiosity does
not lie through the fear
of life, and the fear of
death, and blind faith,
but through striving
after rational
knowledge."
"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."
"You see, wire telegraph
is a kind of a very, very
long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his
head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you
understand this? And
radio operates exactly
the same way: you send
signals here, they
receive them there. The
only difference is that
there is no cat."
"One had to cram all
this stuff into one's mind
for the examinations,
whether one liked it or
not. This coercion had
such a deterring effect
on me that, after I had
passed the final
examination, I found
the consideration of any
scientific problems
distasteful to me for an
entire year."
"...one of the strongest
motives that lead men
to art and science is
escape from everyday
life with its painful
crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the
fetters of one's own
ever-shifting desires. A
finely tempered nature
longs to escape from the
personal life into the
world of objective
perception and
thought."
"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."
"Not everything that
counts can be counted,
and not everything that
can be counted
counts."

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Jackson Alexander says:

June 8, 2013 at 4:42 am

enjoy lots of Einstein's quotes;

Everyone is a genius. But if
you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it will live its
whole life believing that it is
stupid'.
great mind has always encounter
opposition from weak & lazy
folks
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."
"Gravitation is not
responsible for people
falling in love."
"I want to know God's
thoughts; the rest are
details."
"The hardest thing in
the world to understand
is the income tax."
"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 am convinced that He
(God) does not play
dice."
"God is subtle but he is
not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude
becomes weakness of
character."
"I never think of the
future. It comes soon
enough."
"The eternal mystery of
the world is its
comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays
most for the things one
gets for nothing."
"Science without
religion is lame.
Religion without science
is blind."
"Anyone who has never
made a mistake has
never tried anything
new."
"Great spirits have often
encountered violent
opposition from weak
minds."
"Everything should be
made as simple as
possible, but not
simpler."
"Common sense is the
collection of prejudices
acquired by age
eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful
thing if one does not
have to earn one's living
at it."
"The secret to creativity
is knowing how to hide
your sources."
"The only thing that
interferes with my
learning is my
education."
"God does not care
about our mathematical
difficulties. He
integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is
nothing more than a
refinement of everyday
thinking."
"Technological progress
is like an axe in the
hands of a pathological
criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept
by force. It can only be
achieved by
understanding."
"The most
incomprehensible thing
about the world is that
it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve
problems by using the
same kind of thinking
we used when we
created them."
"Education is what
remains after one has
forgotten everything he
learned in school."
"The important thing is
not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own
reason for existing."
"Do not worry about
your difficulties in
Mathematics. I can
assure you mine are still
greater."
"Equations are more
important to me,
because politics is for
the present, but an
equation is something
for eternity."
"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."
"Two things are infinite:
the universe and human
stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the the
universe."
"As far as the laws of
mathematics refer to
reality, they are not
certain, as far as they
are certain, they do not
refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to
set himself up as a
judge of Truth and
Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the
laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what
weapons World War III
will be fought, but
World War IV will be
fought with sticks and
stones."
"In order to form an
immaculate member of
a flock of sheep one
must, above all, be a
sheep."
"The fear of death is the
most unjustified of all
fears, for there's no risk
of accident for someone
who's dead."
"Too many of us look
upon Americans as
dollar chasers. This is a
cruel libel, even if it is
reiterated thoughtlessly
by the Americans
themselves."
"Heroism on command,
senseless violence, and
all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by
the name of patriotism
-- how passionately I
hate them!"
"No, this trick won't
work...How on earth
are you ever going to
explain in terms of
chemistry and physics
so important a
biological phenomenon
as first love?"
"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."
"Yes, we have to divide
up our time like that,
between our politics
and our equations. But
to me our equations are
far more important, for
politics are only a
matter of present
concern. A
mathematical equation
stands forever."
"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."
"Great spirits have
always found violent
opposition from
mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it
when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices
but honestly and
courageously uses his
intelligence."
"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."
"The further the
spiritual evolution of
mankind advances, the
more certain it seems to
me that the path to
genuine religiosity does
not lie through the fear
of life, and the fear of
death, and blind faith,
but through striving
after rational
knowledge."
"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."
"You see, wire telegraph
is a kind of a very, very
long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his
head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you
understand this? And
radio operates exactly
the same way: you send
signals here, they
receive them there. The
only difference is that
there is no cat."
"One had to cram all
this stuff into one's mind
for the examinations,
whether one liked it or
not. This coercion had
such a deterring effect
on me that, after I had
passed the final
examination, I found
the consideration of any
scientific problems
distasteful to me for an
entire year."
"...one of the strongest
motives that lead men
to art and science is
escape from everyday
life with its painful
crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the
fetters of one's own
ever-shifting desires. A
finely tempered nature
longs to escape from the
personal life into the
world of objective
perception and
thought."
"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."
"Not everything that
counts can be counted,
and not everything that
can be counted
counts."
Jackson Alexander says:

June 6, 2013 at 2:43 am

can you include a social forum on this website for knowledge orb lovers?
- Dan Mantel - KnowledgeOrb Contributor says:
  
  June 6, 2013 at 12:26 pm
  
  There used to be a forum but with all the spammers it got to be a real headache. If enough people wanted a forum we could start one but I would be interested in how many people would want to use it.
mrinal sharma says:

April 1, 2013 at 12:17 pm

it will be a pleasure to be a part of this community

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