From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: Einstein Quotes Date: 27 Mar 1995 05:06:19 GMT Organization: Southern InterNet Services Lines: 308 ========================================================================== There's a wonderful family named Stein, There's Ep, there's Gert, and there's Ein. Ep's statues are junk, Gert's poems are bunk, And nobody understands Ein. ========================================================================== mMNM&%w mkMH$MUMFPM,NM#Z%% :!.:x )!!X)$MMWWMM$**$$Nx~~` !!)X?~( ~-!#@\~/!!!@$$$$$$$$$$$R! `-!%. .!!"X !XXM$$$$$$$$$$$R!! !X!!i"~ `: :!t! <: !?X***$$$$$$$***~! ??>X ` ' `!~~: ~x. !R$$$$* . x W` - > ~! ::" `L?X#$F.uC"L" . $ `n % ~<%!.#mT$"<$k"$$Q?:xW " ' ~ 4BhU@$W$?!$$ "$$WdN"'. R$$$$$$* $$k'$$$$$ !&!x Albert !T$$$$6n'$$$ $$$(T .?" Einstein @!M$$$$ec.")d$$$$! `. !!8$f"` " `^T$!~ !!R$ :xxox..o:d" " #@!$WN@W$$$~" \ "~R$$$$$$" N. . "#"""" :X `Wmu. '<: ~ .-` `% XxU@$R~ ~: . ^*$M"$$B$$$"$!:Mm m!!!!!M8X! :`.:L ~UT?8$F .!-.x!: "N `9$$$":"$LFDSA HDFBx<:> ?%$xx!:i:`MHbLX :*:!!:nM.~!~`<. I heard this second hand and I don't know if the story has ever been published... -S K Franz- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) 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. ... I get most joy in life out of music. ``What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,'' for the October 26, 1929 issue of _The Saturday Evening Post_. [ If anyone has any information on George Sylvester Viereck, who coauthored ``Autobiography of the Wandering Jew'' and was an America-Firster (at least before Pearl Harbor) please post. He seems a interesting character. I recommend the _Saturday Evening Post_ article referenced above for other Einstein quotes. ] Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ``What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,'' for the October 26, 1929 issue of _The Saturday Evening Post_. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. _Ideas and Opinions_, (Dell, Pinebrook, N.J., 1954). Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Quoted on pg. 289 of _Adventures of a Mathematician_, by S. M. Ulam (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1976). Apparently these words also occur somewhere in _What I Believe_ (1930). "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully sduffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senceless brutality, deplorable loce-of-country stance, 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." The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. 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