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a wrong expression for the transverse mass of a fast moving particle. The transverse mass is the antiquated name for the ratio of the 3-force to the 3-acceleration when the force is perpendicular to the velocity. Einstein gives this ratio as Planck). , while the actual value is (corrected by Max

Einstein wrote: "I, at any rate, am convinced that He [God] does not throw dice." [68] "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." During the autopsy, the pathologist of Princeton Hospital, Thomas Stoltz Harvey removed Einsteins brain for preservation, without the permission of his family, in hope that the neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent. Actually

"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice." In other words, the universe is intelligently designed. All the great scientists were theists. Only journalists indulge in irrational atheism. God doesn't mess with or take chances with the universe and our being. Everything is perfectly set by God's plan and layout with life. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity. Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. Never memorize what you can look up in books. "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall and have to choose!

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons wch God hath put into his own breast. Plato is my friend Aristotle is my friend but my greatest friend is truth. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Newtons reflecting telescope was an extraordinary achievement. His first telescope was about 6 inches long with a 2 inch mirror and magnified by forty times. He was proud of his handiwork even sixty years later, when Conduitt reports a conversation: "I asked him where he had it made, he said he made it himself, and when I asked him where he got his tools said he made them himself and laughing added if I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything..." I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbor as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at An honest man is always a child.

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Variant: By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Call no man unhappy until he is married. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?"

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Variant: Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others. Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Variant: If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to love with men.

Let him that would move the world first move himself. May the outward and inward man be at one. My belief is that to have no wants is divine. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Variant: Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see

all. Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

The fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown . . . and no one knows whether death which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. . . .

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. To find yourself, think for yourself.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. What a lot of things there are a man can do without. What you cannot enforce, do not command. Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. Wisdom begins in wonder

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.