Albert Einstein, the author of the theory of relativity and the most famous equation in the world : E=mc² which explains the power of nuclear energy, was also renowned for his great sense of peace, his humility, his enormous simplicity and great sense of humor. He always tried to find ways to use his great celebrity (which always surprised him alot) for the promotion of a culture of peace.
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"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
"God does not play dice."
"What makes the true worth of a human being, is his capacity to have freed himself from his little sense of ego."
"A person who never made any mistakes, never tried to go forward either."
"The worth of a man stands in his capacity to give, and not in his capacity to take."
"Science wihtout religion is crippled, religion without science is blind."
"I want to know the mind of God ; everything else is just details."
"Imagination is more important then knowledge."
"Place your hand on a hot stove and it will seem to last an hour. Sit next to a beautiful lady for an hour, and it will seem to last only a minute. That is relativity."
"The most beautiful thing that we can feel, is the great mystey of things."- Albert Einstein
Does evil exist ? A university teacher once defied his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists ? A student bravely answered, yes, he did ! The teacher said, God created everything ? Yes, Sir, replied the student. The teacher then said, "If God created everything, he then also created evil since evil exists and that following the principle that says that our works define what we are, then God is not goodness." The student stayed silent before such an answer. The teacher was completely proud of himself.
Another student raised his hand and said, "May i ask you a question Sir ? " Of course, said the teacher. The student replied : "Sir, does cold exist ?". "What kind of question is that, of course cold exists, you have never been cold ?" replied the teacher. To that, the young man said: "In fact Sir, cold does not exist. According to the law of physics, what we consider as cold, is in reality the absence of heat. Every being, every object transmits energy. The absolute zero (-460°F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reacting at such a temperature. Therefore, the cold does not exist. We have created that word to describe what we feel when we do not feel any heat. The student continued.
« Sir, does obscurity exist ? » The teacher replied: "Of course it exists !" The student said: "No Sir, you are wrong again, obscurity does not exist either. Obscurity is in reality the absence of Light. We can study light, but never obscurity. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to fragment white light in many colours and study the diverse wave lengths of each color. You cannot measure obscurity. A simple ray of light can make irrupton in a world of obscurity and enligthen it instantly. How can you know the space that obscurity occupies ? You measure the quantity of light that is present. Isn't that true ? Obscurity is only a term used by men to describe what happens when light is not there."
Finally, the young man asked the teacher, " Sir, does evil exist ?". Now uncertain, the teacher replied: " Of course as I've already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of the inhumanity of men towards men. It is in the multitude of crimes and violence everywhere in the world. Those manifestations are nothing but evil ! "
The student replied, "evil does not exist, or at least, it does not exist by itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like obscurity and cold, a word that men has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exists as light and heat do. Evil is the result of what happens when men does not have the love of God in his hearth. It is like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or obscurity that comes when there is no light."
The teacher sat down. The name of the young man ?
Albert Einstein.