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Life is like riding a bicycle.  To keep your balance you must keep moving.
    —    Albert Einstein
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We cannot predict the value our work will provide to the world.  That’s fine.  It is not our job to judge our own work.  It is our job to create it, to pour ourselves into it, and to master our craft as best we can.
We all have the opportunity to squeeze every ounce of greatness out of ourselves that we can.  We all have the chance to do our share.
    —     Albert Einstein
[This quote was found on one of the blogs I follow:  ram H singhal
The specific post is:   I have done my share | ram H singhal (wordpress.com)
Please visit the original site if you have a few spare minutes.    —    kmab]
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Kids today don’t know how easy they have it.  When I was young, I had to walk 9 feet through shag pile carpet to change the TV channel.
 
    —     Anonymous
 
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.
 
    —     Albert Einstein
 
I am old but I am forever young at heart.  …  Each year is special and precious, you can only live it once.
 
    —     Richard Gere
 
[Happy Birthday to me!    —    kmab]
 
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Most of the time I played by myself.  Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life.  It can make a man seem a little distant or even aloof – but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.
    —     Roy Wilkins
Be a loner.  That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth.  Have holy curiosity.  Make your life worth living.
    —     Albert Einstein
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.  The important thing is to not stop questioning.
    —    Albert Einstein
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I believe in standardizing automobiles.  I do not believe in standardizing human beings.
    —    Albert Einstein
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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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Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs.
     —    Albert Einstein
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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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