#albert

My dad said to me a few years ago: "There's no harm in thinking." We were talking about Crazy Uncle Albert and whether it was right to use your brain to build weapons. He said, "You can't expect people not to think. Not to know things just because they COULD be bad." I said, "Yeah, but then they built it and a hundred thousand people died." My dad laughed and said there were a lot of steps between the thinking and the doing. Which I know, duh. All I was saying is that when you think of doing something, you don't always know the consequences. For a while people THOUGHT about building the bomb, but nothing happened. In the end it was a lot of different people doing a lot of different things, most of which had nothing to do with the bomb, that did make it happen. I think about that sometimes. Who was the person who had the first thought, the one that started it all? And after they had the thought, what was the first thing they did? I know my uncle never thought, Hey, all this great science- one day I'll use it to kill a whole bunch of people. You just look at his picture; he's not that kind of person. And yet, I guess in a way he sort of is. ↗

— Mariah Fredericks

#head-games #judith-ellis #mariah-fredericks #thinking #science

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#experience

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atheism #god #nature #pantheism #religion

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #philosophy #the-fall #death

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#quote #opinions

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#albert #collins #cool #his #right

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#albert #around #aspects #going #gospel

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#brooks #cool #did #friends #i

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 ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #equations #success #equality

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." ~Albert Einstein "Einstein is referring to ones 'legacy' and its intended future recipients as being willfully purposed to benefit them on their journey through this gift of life given to us by God ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#knowledge-wisdom #legacy #r-alan-woods #study #beauty