source https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/news-quiz/news-quiz-for-week-ending-12-14-18/
All these things you're about to read were said by one man but can you guess who? Was he a scientist or a famous guru? -
“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. There is no matter.”
"Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think. Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world."
“Time does not exist – we invented it. Time is what the clock says. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
"A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Our separation from each other is an optical illusion."
“When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.”
“The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”
“I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”
"The common idea that I am an atheist is based on a big mistake. Anyone who interprets my scientific theories this way, did not understand them."
"Everything is determined, every beginning and ending, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
I think that last one might have given the game away huh?
The answer is .............
Einstein
Why do we only hear of his theory of relativity and E=MC2 when he had so much more to say?
Now that you know who said all those things does it change your perception of the words?
Read them again and see.
That's easy - relativity is used to prop up relativism.
What he describes is common among scientists and mathematicians. Hadamard describes the results of his survey in the 1940s: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hadamard_mathematician/
It is a common experience to anybody whose job is to think hard - think and relax, repeat - then ideas appear to spring from nowhere - but it only works when one inputs the required energy for the brain to keep processing in the background.
OR could it be plugging into the collective consciousness?
what's that?
The theory that everything is connected so we already have access to all information about everything
sounds like a belief system ;-)
The 'we are all one' is the belief system, we are all connected is a philosophy which proves itself over and over (for me at least). No way are we all one tho.
Yes. This is Non-dualism…. Advaita Vedanta.
Only one thing exists.
I agree.
This is also found in The Ethics of Spinoza…
It is not a belief system.
It is the ultimate knowledge.
Alduos Huxley calls it the Perennial Philosphy….
It’s a very good book. https://amzn.to/3eyOMCS
We have more in common than you realize.
How can anyone believe "Only one thing exists."? That makes no sense at all
Einstein was a genius…. and a Pantheist like Spinoza and Carl Sagan… Three of the greatest geniuses that ever lived.
Along with Jesus of course.
Yeah Albert or some old man , from the first lines ,.. all next confirmed Albert .
Basically telling he didn't know shit ,. it all just came to him .
Remind's me of my own grandfather , very religious man ,.. he said , while hearing some hippy songs , ,,
Yes , life is about love ,.. god approves love .
Witch my grandmother commented on in a sarcastic way ...
Yes , you gave so much love ,. gods gate stand's wide open for you !
:-)
It helps me understand why I could not understand quantum physics.
Love this:
and this:
Einstein didn't know any quantum mechanics either! he complains of having to learn the new branch of mathematics in which QM is described.
:-p
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