"As the area of light expands, so..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
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“It's not that I'm so smart.”
“Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
More on Knowledge
“The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.”
“The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”
“The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.”
More on Mystery
“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.”
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”
“Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”