Albert Einstein
Einstein (1879-1955) is generally regarded as the greatest Mathematical physicist of this century and, indeed, one of the greatest scientists of all time. This theory of Relativity has transformed scientists 'nation of time and space. Belief in the Practicability of the atomic bomb was produced very largely by his famous equation stating that energy was related to mass.Born in Germany of Jewish parents, he went to Switzerland in his early youth . For sometimes he taught mathematics physics at Zurich and acquired Swiss citizenship but in 1941, having settled in the United States, he became an American citizen. His contribution to modern science is monumental and his work is all the more remarkable in that rested very little on elaborate laboratory experiments but was based very largely on pure reasoning and mathematics. He was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1921.his writings for the layman are few but they include an introduction to the gernal theory of relativity which demonstrates, like the essay below, that he had an admirable talent for straight forward expositions.
My Opinions About World Nature |The World as I see It
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| The World as I see it |
What an extraordinary situation
is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it.But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-man --in the first place for those on whose smile and welfare all our happiness, depends and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labour of the other men, living and dead , and that I must still receiving, I am order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men . I regard class differences as contrary to justice and in the last resort, based on force,I also consider that plain living is good for every day, physically and mentally.
In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer's saying that 'a man can do as he will, but not will as he will ' has been an inspiration to me since my youth , and a continual consolation and un failing well - spring of patience in the face of the hardship of life, my own and others . This feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralysing , it prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously;it conduces to a view of life in which humour , above all, has its due place.
To inquire after the meaning or object of one's own existence or of creation generally. Has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view. And yet everybody has certain ideas which determine the direction of his endeavours and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves-such an ²ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of wine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, Goodness and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind ,of preoccupation with the objective ,the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. The ordinary objects of human endeavour property, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
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