Einstein’s remark on the limitlessness of human stupidity is made even more disturbing by the discovery that infinity comes in different sizes. Answering ‘How much stupider?’ or trying to measure the minimal idiocy bounded by an IQ test are mysteries which are themselves infinitely less alarming than simply attempting to tally the anti-savant population. One can count all the natural idiots (they’re the same as the even number of idiots – twice as many), but the number of real idiots continues forever: all the counting idiots (finger reckoners) plus all the fractional idiots (geniuses on a bad day) plus all the irrational idiots (they go on and on and on) add up to a world in which the approaching upper limit of our set of natural resources has its complement in the inexhaustible lower limit of our set of mental ones.
BauvardTag: einstein infinity misattributed-to-einstein numbers
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Bill GaedeTag: prediction einstein god physics mathematics gaede peer-review
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
Joyce CaryTag: einstein church anarchism buddha protestantism karma churches confucius anarchists vitamins gulley-jimson plantie
Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.
Albert EinsteinTag: science einstein humour universe french philosophie bêtise-humaine infini
La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.
Albert EinsteinTag: einstein humour french philosophie vie bicyclette
Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s no harm in saying you’re an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don’t believe necessarily that there’s a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I’m in good company … Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It’s not like I’m not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world.
Tag: einstein belief atheism atheist charles-darwin darwin golden-rule albert-einstein company twain mark-twain supreme-being george-carlin carlin
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.
Criss JamiTag: wisdom truth strength einstein solitude loneliness genius alone foolish perseverance theory fools wise discovery symbolism true lonely albert-einstein hypothesis wolf representation planet solitary symbol loners wise-man lone lone-wolf represent
If one could see an infinite distance, they would observe the back of their head. That is Einstein's theory in a nut-shell".
R. Alan WoodsTag: einstein relativity-space einsteinian-universe
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill GaedeTag: einstein religion quantum-mechanics mathematics gaede general-relativity
Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Albert EinsteinTag: knowledge einstein albert-einstein
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