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* The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
. . . .. .. Caroline
Rowlands 01332 756583
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A Free Spirit
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"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from
the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
Einstein's
famous formula E=mc² The formula describes the relationship between : ENERGY (E) MASS (M)
and the SPEED of LIGHT (C) *
It is from his Special Theory of Relativity.
So if matter moves fast enough it converts to pure energy.
The special theory of relativity
says that time and space are relative. In other words how we measure time and space depends on our state of motion relative
to other observers.
The implication of the formula is that a small amount of matter could, in principle, be converted
into a vast amount of energy
 JUST FOR FUN 1. He Liked His Feet Naked
"When I was young, I found
out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock," he once said. "So I stopped wearing socks."
Einstein was also a fanatical slob, refusing to "dress properly" for anyone. Either people knew him or they didn't,
he reasoned - so it didn't matter either way.
2. He Hated
Scrabble
Aside from his favourite past-time sailing ("the
sport which demands the least energy"), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he
told the New York Times, "When I get through with work I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
3. He Was A Rotten Speller
Although he lived for many years in the United States and was fully bilingual, Einstein claimed never to be able to
write in English because of "the treacherous spelling". He never lost his distinctive German accent either, summed
up by his catch-phrase "I vill a little t'ink". 4. He Loathed Science Fiction
Lest it distort pure science and give people the false illusion of scientific
understanding, he recommended complete abstinence from any type of science fiction. "I never think of the future. It
comes soon enough." He also thought people who claimed to have seen flying saucers should keep it to themselves.
5. He Smoked Like A Chimney
A life member of the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club, Einstein was quoted as saying: "Pipe smoking contributes to
a somewhat calm and objective judgment of human affairs." | He once fell into the water during a boating expedition but managed heroically to
hold on to his pipe 6.
He Wasn't Much Of A Musician
Einstein would relax in his kitchen with his trusty violin, stubbornly trying
to improvise something of a tune. When that didn't work, he'd have a crack at Mozart.
7.
Alcohol Was Not His Preferred Drug
At a press conference upon his arrival to New York in 1930, he said jokingly
of Prohibition: "I don't drink, so it's all the same to me." In fact, Einstein had been an outspoken critic
of "passing laws which cannot be enforced".
8. He Equated Monogamy
With Monotony
"All marriages are dangerous," he once told an interviewer. "Marriage is the unsuccessful
attempt to make something lasting out of an incident." He was notoriously unfaithful as a husband, prone to falling in
love with somebody else directly after the exchanging of vows
9. His Memory
Was Shot
Believing that birthdays were for children, his attitude is summed up in a letter he wrote to his girlfriend
Mileva Maric: "My dear little sweetheart ... first, my belated cordial congratulations on your birthday yesterday, which
I forgot once again."
10. His Cat Suffered Depression
Fond of animals, Einstein kept a housecat which tended to get depressed whenever it rained. Ernst Straus recalls him
saying to the melancholy cat: "I know what's wrong, dear fellow, but I don't know how to turn it off." |
 "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. . Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. . Anyone
to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.
To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty,
whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the
true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men."
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society
that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
"It is a magnificent feeling to recognise the unity
of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth."
Albert
Einstein
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