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To: Voltaire who wrote (31723)	2/24/2001 3:58:26 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

Some thoughts by Albert Einstein... Albert on Miscellaneous Subjects and Quotations Attributed to Albert Einstein: <<Mozart wrote such nonsense here! ~While struggling to play a piece by Mozart (Margot Einstein-Einstein in America), p. 139 When women are in their homes, they are attached to their furnishings... they are always fussing with them. When I am with a woman on a journey, I am the only piece of furniture that she has available, and she cannot refrain from moving around me all day long and improving something about me. ~Einstein: His Life and Times, p. 126 Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident. Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value The most important kind of tolerance is tolerance of the individual by society and by the state... When the state becomes the main thing and the individual becomes its weak-willed tool, then all the finer values are lost. ~from an unpublished article, 1934 I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics. I'm glad my wife doesn't know any science; my first wife did. The monotony of a quiet life stimulates a creative mind. Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Regarding sex education: No secrets. Science will stagnate if made to serve practical goals. Men really devoted to the progress of knowledge concerning the physical world... never worked for practical, let alone military, goals. I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I do know how the Fourth will: with sticks and stones. In any conflict involving humanity and technology, humanity will win. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world. Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. People like you and I, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we will never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born. ~Letter to Otto Juliusburger, 1942 I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out on behalf of those who are young and who are subject to much greater restraint. I live in the solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.>> ___________________________________________________ Einstein sure was a powerful thinker.... Best Regards, Scott