February 28, 2014

Collection of Albert Einstein Quotes

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! 

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

February 17, 2014

What is Reality?




The first problem is that reality is big and as big as the universe. Whereas each one of us who discuss reality is just a 3 pound brain. Do we match? Can we manage to do it? Can we comprehend the incomprehensible?
These questions were asked by countless wise men from all civilizations for centuries.

 The most ancient of civilization which is undoubtedly that of the Indian civilization has dealt elaborately with the subject under a different topic – spirituality.

 Today the modern man of the 21st century is asking the same question under the topic – science.

However, the irony is that both seem to have no definite and acceptable view of what reality really is.The modern day scientists seem to be baffled trying to grasp reality.
Can reality really be defined?

Is anything really real?

 

For example if we carefully examine our experiences of the past in terms of buildings and people we doubt if they really existed once upon a time even though we have actually seen it. These buildings have disappeared and new ones have taken up their place. Grandfather is no more. Did he really exist? Yes of course, the photos prove it. But where is Grandfather now? Has he gone to heaven or hell or is he reborn somewhere? Or was he just a temporary thing?

When you were young you felt so healthy despite doing all things that were known to upset health. But when you are old and follow everything that you doctor says you find it difficult to get back to health. Is the advise of doctors really of any use? Is science useless? Of what use is science when it cannot give what nature once gave us for free?

A person was once poor and did not have enough money to buy a meal. Today the same person is filthy rich and throws food around. Is the world of money real? Does money really matter. Jesus Christ said that the rich can never get though the gates of heaven. The Buddha gave up the riches and found peace. The rich looks elsewhere for peace and happiness whereas the poor sees money as the ultimate remedy for their suffering.

Science and its approach`

 

First they told me and proved by experiments that light travels in a straight line. Then told me it is a wave. Finally they told me that it is not these. It is more complicated.

Science first told us that there is no GOD and now they say that GOD is a great possibility. They told us that matter can neither be created nor be destroyed and then speak about how the universe was created by a big bang disproving that matter cannot be created.

Your opinion about something changes fast, but every time, that opinion was the reality at that point in time.


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"




February 02, 2014

Crude oil consumption & Population & Rainfall in india




The above  graphs shows an interesting relation the crude oil consumption increases average surface (temperature, population and deforestation increases  with slight changes in average rainfall . If the data is true then we can conclude that consumption petroleum products and  human living condition is highly related .
It is up to the planning commission of india to look in this point of view and plan accordingly.