The world as i see italbert einstein
The world as i see it
by albert einstein · first published 1990
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In school I came across `The World as I See It` by Albert Einstein. It resonated with me on many levels and even made me actually think about things which I was somehow not thinking through just because no one questions them in general, especially…
on “Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school?” ↗As an aside, I think Einstein's religious attitudes are underreported and understudied. There are a couple great sections in The World as I See it [1]: > I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. > A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the…
on “Old jokes” ↗…systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This page http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/einstein_religion.html says the quote is from: Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, Secaucus, New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1999, pp. 24-29. That page includes the book's preceding 11 paragraphs, in which Einstein states that belief in God is naive and childish.
on “How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery” ↗…such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them." Thank you. I included the actual Einstein quote, which is taken from his book The World as I See It, in my other reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462856 Here it is, again: But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and…
on “How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery” ↗