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? |
Posts Tagged ‘Albert Einstein’
Diversity And Uniqueness
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Automobiles, Human Beings, Philosophy, Quotes, Standardization on June 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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? | |
The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged A Dangerous World, Albert Einstein, Evil, Paul Ryan, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes on July 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The world is a dangerous place to be not because of the people who do evil; but because of the people who stand by and let them. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
One Thing We Do Know
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Philosophy, Quotes on July 11, 2018| 1 Comment »
Strange is our situation here upon Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of other men. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
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 |
Sunrises, Rainbows And Newborn Babies
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Miracles, Philosophy, Quotes on May 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
If you don’t believe in miracles, you’ll never see one. If you believe in miracles, you’ll see them all the time. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Untold Agony |
2016 | Just Borrowed |
2015 | Warning |
2014 | Always More Productive |
2013 | Is Not |
2012 | Loosely Translated |
2011 | Your Opinions Are Not My Facts |
Simple
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Faith, God, Philosophy, Quotes on January 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »
When the solution is simple, God is answering. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Knowledge Pays |
2016 | Brief Glimpses And Full Glances |
2015 | Pursuing Perspective |
2014 | Wearing Down? |
2013 | Labouring Under A Curse |
2012 | Listen To Yourself |
2011 | Career Tips (Part 1) |
No Captain Dunsel | |
The Great Leveler
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, All Men Are Created Equal, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee, Philosophy, President Thomas Jefferson, Quotes, Rockefeller, Supreme Court of the United States, To Kill A Mockingbird, Yankees on December 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
“One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious — because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe — some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others — some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. | |
“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal — there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal. | |
“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.” | |
— Harper Lee | |
From her novel: “To Kill A Mockingbird“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Election + 1 Month |
2015 | Dance And Sing |
2014 | A Measuring Stick For Progress |
2013 | Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit |
2012 | Have We Met? |
2011 | Efficiently Useless |
Open Your Eyes (And Your Heart)
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Art, Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Science on August 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and 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. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Privilege Too… |
2015 | Otherwise Obscured |
2014 | Fundamentals |
2013 | Proof – ing |
2012 | Deluge, n. |
2011 | Hail, Caesar! |
Why Were You Sent? | |
A Trumpet Solo
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, My Journal, On Fame, On Public Perception, Quotes on June 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is. With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Potential Is A Heavy Burden |
2014 | Fear Not, Weep Not |
2013 | Half Way There |
2012 | Sacrificed Any Lately? |
2011 | The Value Of One’s Character |
2010 | Intervals |
On Being Human | |
Non-predictive Emergence | |
Events | |
Bodily Functions | |
Standing Thoughts | |
Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed | |