deemin
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 Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: quotes of einstien |
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| Quote: | The first two years of college are vocabulary lessons.
The second two years are spent learning who to ask and where to look it up.
Somebody has to be in charge.
We just flew in from Los Angeles, and boy are our arms tired.
Everything changes, everything stays the same. |
anyone know any more? |
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Murdoc
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Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:22 am Post subject: |
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I have no idea why this is in this forum, but I do know some very good ones:
| Quote: | "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"If at first the idea does not seem absurd then there is no hope for it."
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer ."
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet."
"We are at the dawn of a new world. Scientists have given to men considerable powers. Politicians have seized hold of them. The world must choose between the unspeakable desolation of mechanization for profit or conquest, and the lusty youthfulness of science and technique serving the social needs of a new civilization."
"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."
"The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indespensible precondition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself is not enough. In order to be content men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accord with their personal characteristics and abilities."
"Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all."
"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
"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. "
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organizations of labor and the distribution of goods -- in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind." |
Based on (most of) these it seems likely that Einstein would have been a strong supporter of Technocracy. 
I really hope I didn't have to put those in quote tags... 
EDIT: Ah, I see now. My humble apologies. |
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