Thursday, August 21, 2008

Quote of the Day: Someone Must Have Written These Books


Albert Einstein - Physicist

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."

Albert Einstein's contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics. (source - Wikipedia)

With regards to belief in God, he was an agnostic.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Einstein also said:

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

BallBounces said...

What did Jesus Christ say about being childlike?

"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"