"Applying the axioms of physical science to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
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“There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.”
“How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.”
“In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.”
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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
“The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.”
“The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.”