Happy Birthday Albert!

Albert Einstein entered this world on March 14, 1879. A theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, his achievements have the label of "genius."  This blog entry isn't about all his scientific wisdom but more about the wisdom found in his quotes.  Here are some quotes I found in the Christian Science Monitor.

1. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
2. The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. 
3. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 
4. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
5. Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
6. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
7.It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
8. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
9. Never lose a holy curiosity.
10. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
11. Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do – but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
12. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid.  Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
13. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
14. Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
15. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Some of these quotes I've heard before but others are new to me. Wisdom speaks through this mans words as well as his works.  So, 

Happy Birthday Albert! 

                                                 

Namaste,

Mareda