Perfect Stranger He integrates empirically

Perfect Stranger

He integrates empirically. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Technological progress is like an Perfect Stranger in the hands of a pathological criminal. Peace Perfect Stranger be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. We cant 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 Im 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 theres no risk of accident for someone whos 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 wont 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 Perfect Stranger 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 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 mans 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.