Strange is our situation upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Small Moments, Lived Well |
Shaking My Confidence | |
2020 | Two Happy |
Every Time I Look Around | |
Boxing (Day: 3) – Double-End Target Setup | |
2019 | Stand Up, Hook Up, Shuffle To The Door… |
2018 | Ridiculous Idea |
2017 | Waddle On! |
A Severe Challenge — When The President Is A Liar | |
2016 | The Best Of Circumstances |
2015 | Reverberating Silence |
2014 | Wrong Again? |
2013 | Improper Faith |
2012 | One More Rung |
2011 | Sunday Morning Earlies (Hugging trees and smiling…) |
Hurry | |
Updates On Life | |
2010 | It’s Gettin’ Deep In Here |
Posts Tagged ‘Albert Einstein’
A Strange Situation
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged A Divine Purpose, A Short Visit, Albert Einstein, Earth, Happiness, Philosophy, Quotes, Smiles, Well-Being on December 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Vision Test
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, G.K. Chesterton, Life, Miracles, Philosophy, Quotes on May 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. | |
— G.K. Chesterton | |
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. | |
― Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Or These Days, On The Internet |
There Goes My Heart | |
2020 | Find An Antidote |
2019 | Take A Few Minutes To Remember |
Start By Doubting | |
2018 | You Cannot Pretend |
2017 | A Long Shadow |
2016 | Learning, Experience, Chances or Money |
2015 | The Critical State |
2014 | Dawn, n. |
2013 | Ouch! |
2012 | Just Lookin’ Around |
Still Growing | |
2011 | But Do You Want To? |
Might Still Flicker Or Shine
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Albert Einstein, Carlo Rovelli, Daffodils, Fermilab, General Relativity, Muons, Muonstruck, Philosophy, Physics, Quotes, Science, The Standard Model Of Particle Physics, Virginia Heffernan, Werner Heisenberg, William Wordsworth, Wired Magazine on April 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The central contention of physics has it that the building blocks of the universe will endure even if, or even when, the humans who tally them, and the planet we live on, all die. To see into the deathless universe is to try to see nothing so flamboyant as [William] Wordsworth’s favorite daffodils and walnut groves, but to peer into the coldest spaces, the black holes and the fractional electric charge of theoretical subatomic particles. These entities have no blood flow, of course, but also no DNA; they’re not susceptible to pandemics, however virulent, or the dividends and ravages of carbon. They don’t live, so they don’t die. To model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting — to try to achieve, in a lab, an intimation of immortality. | |
Back to the living world that’s under our feet. [Carlo] Rovelli is right to caution against the potential delusions of those who are greedy for eurekas. But, as a fellow physicist with a radical streak, he is also sympathetic to their ambitions, a drive to “learn something unexpected about the fundamental laws of nature.” To Rovelli, whose latest book describes quantum mechanics as an almost psychedelic experience, a truly radical discovery entails the observation of phenomena that fall outside three existing frameworks in physics: quantum theory, the Standard Model of particle physics, and general relativity. Only by blowing up one of those frameworks can one achieve the kind of immortality that scientists get, the glory of someone like Einstein or Heisenberg. | |
But to keep looking, as Rovelli has, as Fermilab has with this study on the muon’s magnetism, is also to apprehend hints. To follow hints. In that way, the physicist’s work and the poet’s are the same. And if Wordsworth is right, immortality can be found, of all places, in the hint — the staggering proposition by nature itself that, in spite of all the dying around us, something of all we love might be imperishable, might still flicker or shine or wobble when the rest of our world is gone. | |
— Virginia Heffernan | |
From her article: “Muonstruck“ | |
Appearing in: Wired Magazine; dtd: June 2021 | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Keep Growing |
I Keep Looking | |
2020 | I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plans |
One Earth | |
2019 | Beautiful Rules |
2018 | Skepticism |
2017 | WWGD? |
2016 | Growing Greatness |
2015 | When It Is Darkest |
2014 | Knowledge And Doubt |
2013 | Three Thoughts |
2012 | Gentle Reader |
2011 | Leave The Light On For Me Anyway |
The Invisible Community
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Beauty, Being A Loner, Community, Feelings, Isolation, Justice, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth on April 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | I’d Add Planning |
Whisper A Little | |
2020 | I’m From Missouri |
Do Not Take Freedom For Granted | |
2019 | Before & After |
Quiet, Please! | |
2018 | Heavy On The Starch |
2017 | But The Beginning Of What? |
2016 | Today’s Rule |
2015 | Remembering Oklahoma City |
2014 | Who Was That Masked Man? |
2013 | Enemy Mine |
2012 | Strengthen Me |
2011 | Service, Please |
2010 | The Church In Crisis… |
If That’s What You Mean
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell, Faith, Frank Sinatra, God, Inshallah, Life, Nature, No Comfort, Philosophy, Quotes, Roll The Dice on April 4, 2022| 2 Comments »
I believe in you and me. I’m like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life – in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don’t believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice. | |
–– Frank Sinatra | |
[Can one draw comfort from believing in “God” without looking directly for it (God’s comfort)? I seem to be able to. Inshallah… — KMAB] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Awakening The Glow |
I Remember | |
2020 | Golden Eagle |
Like #45: Incompetent Donald | |
2019 | #45: Who Lost By Three Million Votes |
2018 | Torn Between Two Loves |
A Girl And A Boy | |
2017 | I Think They Are Starting To… |
2016 | Living There |
2015 | Bookin’ West |
Beyond My Reach | |
You Never Call Anymore… | |
2014 | Winning? |
2013 | Still Inventing |
2012 | Motivated |
2011 | Waiting In Line At Starbuck’s |
Feeling Humble
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Albert Einstein, Faith, Humility, Laws of the Universe, Philosophy, Quotes, Science on July 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. | |
― Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Mostly Dry, With A Chance Of Late Rain |
And The Same Goes For Blogs / Posts | |
2019 | Not Enough |
2018 | One Thing We Do Know |
2017 | Preservation |
2016 | Going Back |
2015 | Just For Today |
2014 | Reaching For Destiny |
2013 | Still Just Passing Through |
2012 | Live Or Die |
2011 | On Secession |
2010 | A Rocky Weekend |
The Correct Answer Will Be In The Form Of A Question
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Learning, Philosophy, Questioning, Quotes, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday on May 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2020 | Testing To Open The Economy Safely |
2019 | Or Thought I’d Thought |
2018 | Go And Dare |
2017 | And Wealth A Poor Substitute For Ability |
2016 | Neither Darkness Nor Shadows |
2015 | It Took Roots |
2014 | Hard Evidence |
2013 | Full Participation |
2012 | Roving (Again) |
Ooops, Again | |
2011 | Why Not? |
Diversity And Uniqueness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Automobiles, Human Beings, Philosophy, Quotes, Standardization on June 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Ebb And Flow |
2018 | America: Paging #45 |
2017 | Near By |
2016 | Maybe Someday |
2015 | How’s The Cow? |
2014 | Mind Made Up |
2013 | On Purpose |
2012 | The Dream |
2011 | What Could Be More Comfortable? |
Senate Perfidy
Posted in History, Leadership, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Fear, Great Forces, Greed, History, https://aponderingmind.org, Lamar Alexander, Leadership Failure, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Stupidity, U.S. Sentate on February 2, 2020| 3 Comments »
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
[Friday’s vote in the U.S. Senate… I’ve been reading some of the press releases from the Republican Senators who voted to block all new testimony and evidence in the impeachment trial of President Trump: We don’t need anymore new evidence because the House Managers have proven the President is guilty and we don’t want the American public to hear anymore evidence in “our” (Republican controlled) chamber. We’ve closed the book on this case, so let’s get on with voting to dismiss the impeachment because we Republicans don’t care that he’s guilty of violating his oath of Office by abusing his power. (paraphrasing Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander) What Alexander didn’t say was: “I’m not even willing to discuss the President’s guilt in obstructing Congress ’cause I just said he was guilty and why should a guilty Republican President have to provide evidence (documents or witnesses) about his own guilt just because a Democratic controlled House of Representatives wants us to fulfill our Constitution mandated oversight responsibilities.” | |
The above quote (from Einstein) was found at one of the blogs I follow: https://aponderingmind.org | |
The specific link is: https://aponderingmind.org/2020/01/01/three-great-forces-rule-the-world-stupidity-fear-and-greed-albert-einstein/ | |
Please visit the site if you have a spare moment… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | A Clear View Of #45 |
2021 | Not Here, Not Again |
Will The Senate Convict An Insurrectionist? | |
2020 | Senate Perfidy |
2019 | Contributing To Congress |
Yellow Signs Of Spring | |
2018 | But Take Heart |
Poetic Marker | |
2017 | The Few, The Many, The Most |
2016 | To My Brother |
2015 | For Junior |
A Roman Rome | |
2014 | Hmmm |
2013 | What’s A Motto With You? |
2012 | Worthy Companions |
2011 | Bourne Again |
Which Ten Are You In? | |
Why #45 Is Fated To Endanger Our National Security
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged #45IsATraitor, #Impeach45, #TraitorInTheWhiteHouse, #TrumpIsACriminal, Albert Einstein, National Security, Politics, Quotes, Trust, Truth on October 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Sustainable Development |
Duke, Duke, Duke | |
2020 | #IncompetentDonald Is A Clear And Present Danger |
VOTE – “We The People” Can Save America | |
2019 | Why #45 Is Fated To Endanger Our National Security |
2018 | Dehydrated |
Dehydrated II | |
2017 | And Some Of Us Have Books |
2016 | I See No Proof |
2015 | Whither Tea Party? |
2014 | Nothing Is Known Absolutely |
2013 | Decoration Time |
2012 | The Beatitudes |
2011 | Good Fences Make Good Neighbors |
2010 | Back On The Asphalt |
No Sweep – Rangers Win Game 3 by 4 to 2 | |
Greek Myths For Kids | |
Sometimes Too Subtle
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Faith, God, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosophy, Princeton University, Quotes on March 4, 2019| Leave a Comment »
God may be subtle, but malicious He is not. | |
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
Quoted by Albert Einstein, when asked by the Dean of Letters & Science at Princeton, what phrase should be put over the main doors of the new Physics Building, in 1939, for students to ponder. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | A Lot Like Teaching |
2017 | Wake Up |
2016 | I Like Dreaming |
2015 | Importance |
2014 | Unearned Humility |
2013 | Science Is Trial And Error |
2012 | Franklin’s Creed |
2011 | First Steps |
2010 | Home Ill… |
Relative Imagination
Posted in Education, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Albert Einstein, Imagination, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding on September 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | MAGA Choice: Reality Or Lies |
You Seem To Be | |
2020 | A Good Reason To Blog |
Finally Enjoying The View | |
2019 | Living Free |
2018 | Relative Imagination |
2017 | Thank You, Senator McCain (So Far Anyway) |
2016 | What About Friends? |
2015 | It Tastes Good To Me |
2014 | Others’ Footsteps |
The Not-So-Modern Samurai | |
2013 | Doin’ |
2012 | A Lover |
2011 | What Have We Found Here |
Words | |
A Thought For Those Continuing To Support President Trump
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Evil, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on September 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Back To Paying Dues |
Keep Rollin’ | |
2020 | Diets And Lifestyle Changes |
Pay Attention | |
Just Not Sure, And That’s Okay | |
2019 | The Right Questions |
Day 3: Still Difficult | |
2018 | A Thought For Those Continuing To Support President Trump |
Day 36: Pushing On | |
2017 | Imagining Humor |
2016 | So Go On And Deal With It |
2015 | From A Letter To A Friend |
2014 | Your Part (Here) |
2013 | Complements |
2012 | Sound And Light |
2011 | Two Politicians Visit A Farm… |
2010 | Labor Day And Honorable Men |
Fear And Hope
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Ethical Behavior, Faith, Fear, Hope, Philosophy, Punishment, Quotes, Religion, Reward on August 29, 2018| 1 Comment »
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | How Learning Infections Begin |
Stay Young At Heart | |
2020 | Policies Not People |
Just Thinking To Myself | |
2019 | Should I Start With My Religion? |
2018 | Fear And Hope |
Day 33: Good News & Prep | |
2017 | Directions |
2016 | Handle With Care |
2015 | Nothing But Pride |
2014 | Go |
2013 | Well, Does It? |
2012 | Near Misses Aren’t Successes |
2011 | Uncomfortable Feelings |
2010 | San Francisco (favorites)… |
Bullets or Butter? | |