🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@Chrisleon27 Yes he said it in an interview in "The twelve powers of man" page 52 - 53

"I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others." - Einstein

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"Every man knows that in his work he does best and accomplishes most when he has attained a proficiency that enables him to work intuitively. That is, there are things which we come to know so well that we do not know how we know them. So it seems to me in matters of principle. Perhaps we live best and do things best when we are not too conscious of how and why we do them." -- Einstein

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"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man" - Einstein

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"The eternally incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility." - Einstein

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As many of you know I have a love for all the logical razors that exist (did a post a while back). Einstein's razor is one of my favorites. It is usually paraphrased as:

"everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"

The original quote is a bit more complex as:

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience"

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"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile" - Einstein

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"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality." -- Einstein

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As a free speech instance this is all to relevant. Science can not exist without it.

"A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech." - Einstein

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"I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I do not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations." -- Einstein

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"I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, 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 player." -- Einstein

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"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." -- Einstein

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"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious." -- Einstein

Now thats a religion I can support.

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Oh no... I'm on an Einstein quote binge!

"The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case." -- Einstein

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Einsteins true genius was in seeing past the accepted truths to a more fundamental nature of the universe than our preconceived notions would allow:

"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they might come to be stamped as "necessities of thought," "a priori givens," etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors. Therefore it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend, and how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. Thus their excessive authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, or replaced if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason." -- Einstein

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Original:

Begriffe, welche sich bei der Ordnung der Dinge als nützlich erwiesen haben, erlangen über uns leicht eine solche Autorität, dass wir ihres irdischen Ursprungs vergessen und sie als unabänderliche Gegebenheiten hinnehmen. Der Weg des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts wird durch solche Irrtümer oft für längere Zeit ungangbar gemacht. -- Einstein

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Contempt prior to examination....

"The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination."

Pretty much sums up every conspiracy theorist I ever met, particularly the COVID conspiracy theorists.

Still true. Sadly it seems 6 year olds are much smarter than most adults, they actually try to understand things they dont already accept as true.

BTW the actual quote is "all physical theories, their mathematical expressions apart ought to lend themselves to so simple a description 'that even a child could understand them.' "

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@sergeantcat had to redraft the post, sorry this left your comment dangling. Feel free to recomment if you wish.

@sergeantcat agreed. It amazes me that adults have become dumber than 6 year olds.