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Summary: Insight
Comment: If youve ever wondered what was inside Albert's head, than this is the book for you. one example is that I was always torn between science and religion, and Albert was able to elaborate his thoughts on that matter and it was a perspective that I found myself finally agreeing with.
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Summary: Ideas & Opinions
Comment: Since Einstein was supposed to be the smartest man of the 19th and 20th centuries, I thought I could get some insight into questions that had puzzled man since the beginning. The meaning of life. What am I doing here? That kind of stuff. Well, let me tell you I spent all my time looking up words on my Franklin. That's the problem with smart people. They try to prove how smart they are by using words that nobody else understands. In my case, Einstein succeeded. I think he's real smart but I still don't know what I'm doing here.
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Summary: Einstein was more than a scientist...
Comment: E=MC 2 = God...
Jesus said: If they ask you, "Where are you from?" reply to them, "We have come from the place where light is produced from itself." - The Gospel of Thomas Line 50a
(E=MC 2 means Energy & Matter are a Unity. Light (Photons), the stuff of the Universe, is liquid matter. Matter is frozen energy. Energy (Light) is God. God is the stuff the Universe is made of.)
"If they ask you, "What is the sign within you of your Father?" reply to them, "It is movement. It is rest." - The Gospel of Thomas Line 50c
A Binary system. Yin & Yang. How the Universe operates. How God works. God is not a "person". God is a system. God is an event. God is the law of causality. (Einstein) God is the process of Yin & Yang (Buddha).
Jesus said: If your leaders say to you, "Look! The Kingdom is in the sky!" Then the birds will be there before you are. Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside you. - The Gospel of Thomas Line 3
John 12:28 - Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore that stood by, and heard it, SAID THAT IT THUNDERED: others said, AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
They asked him: When is the Kingdom coming? He replied: It is not coming in an easily observable manner. People will not be saying, "Look, it's over here" or "Look, it's over there." Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is already spread out on the earth, and people aren't aware of it. - The Gospel of Thomas Line 113
Jesus said: I am the light above everything. I am everything. - Line 77a
Split wood, I am there. Lift up a rock, you will find me there. - Line 77b
The Universe is made out of God. We are made out of God. If you have no preconceived ideas and are operating in total freedom you are using your mind as nature intended it to work before society (Maya, Illusion) implants false concepts in your head. "Enlightenment" is stopping the false ideas in your mind so your mind will function as free and creative as nature. Then you are "following the Tao" or are "full of Grace" and your actions are the most logical ones to do in any situation without thinking (Without using Logic). This is psychology, not religion. This is Zen. See the exploding miracle of now!!!
I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. - Einstein
I am Oriental by blood. - Einstein
A human being is part of the whole world, called by us "Universe". He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. - Einstein
Einstein was prone to talk about God so often that I was lead to suspect he was a disguised theologian. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer
I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. - Einstein
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Summary: Accelerated Movement
Comment: This is great reading, important reading. Impressive stuff. I know I'm not the first person to say this but, man that Einstein was a brilliant guy.
"Ideas and Opinions" is a collection of his writings over a lifetime. It is broken up into sections, with some of the more interesting work being well after his scientific genius days. Chapters include writings on freedom, religion, politics, government, pacifism, Judaism and the plight of the Jewish people, as well as a nice sampling of scientific essays.
A major theme that emerged for me, recently re-reading this, is the gradual transformation of creative, rational intelligence into true astute wisdom.
The young mind is still being myelinated, with rapid changes, lots of plasticity, pruning of excess neuronal connections, restructuring of synaptic connectivity. In this stage, memories and emotions are processed by the limbic system but drive the body and the mind by variously igniting or diminishing arousal as mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. The neocortex, particularly frontal lobes communicating with the parietal lobes, are the source of the brilliance of the Theory of Relativity. It takes the ability to think outside of norms, think creatively (maybe time is unreal, maybe matter and energy are the same thing...), and then have the brilliance to think it through, pull it all together. But let's take an honest look. Just about everything Einstein contributed to our scientific knowledge stemmed from thought experiments he did in his twenties. Those were some exceptional frontal lobes, and they were driven to success by a limbic system, but a limbic system speaking through that primitive endocrine axis, that endocrine system that's no more sophisticated than a rat's, little more the a chicken's.
But then something changes. The brain is mostly done sealing over new tracks of neocortex, but the limbic system is being integrated more and more with the neocortex. Emotions and logic learn to communicate in ways that bypass the reptilian paleocortex. This is when religiosity turns into spirituality. This is when lust begins to approach unselfish love. This is the source of the wisdom of the elderly. Obviously, Einstein was exceptionally bright to start with and had a nice head-start here, but one can track his thinking chronologically and really see a continuous process, a developmental process, a mode of intelligence revamping, subtle neuronal renovations yielding a distinct mode of reason.
There's so much to comment on here, volumes could be written interpreting his communications, and probably have been. There are lots of relevant angles to focus on, but nothing broke my heart like reading his essays written between the two world wars, reading these pleas to the people and governments of the world, especially reading this in short spurts on the train after listening to the world news in recent days while I trudge, half-bleary, pre-caffeinated, to the train station:
"Few of us still cling to the notion that acts of violence in the shape of wars are either advantageous or worthy of humanity as a method of solving international problems. But we are not consistent enough to make vigorous efforts on behalf of the measures which might prevent war, that savage and unworthy relic of the age of barbarism. It requires some power of reflection to see the issue clearly and a certain courage to serve this great cause resolutely and effectively"... "this failure is due not only to the intrigues of ambitious and unscrupulous politicians but also to the indifference and slackness of the public in all countries..." Boy, lucky for us we had true intellectuals around, glad we got that under control.
All this stuff I'm fumbling to say, Einstein's on it, he gets it, we see it in a private letter to Sigmund Freud, where he invokes the efforts of "Jesus Christ to Goethe to Kant" in the struggle against violence as the means to an end: "You have shown with impelling lucidity how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up in the human psyche with those of love and life. But at the same time there shines through the cogent logic of your arguments a deep longing for the great goal of internal and external liberation of mankind from war." Yeah, ditto. That's what I'm trying to say.
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Summary: Good book.
Comment: Interesting book, you will find in it something new about six sigma.
I have a book from Pyzdek and one from Brayfogle, but also this one gave me new insite.
Summary: Insight
Comment: If youve ever wondered what was inside Albert's head, than this is the book for you. one example is that I was always torn between science and religion, and Albert was able to elaborate his thoughts on that matter and it was a perspective that I found myself finally agreeing with.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ideas & Opinions
Comment: Since Einstein was supposed to be the smartest man of the 19th and 20th centuries, I thought I could get some insight into questions that had puzzled man since the beginning. The meaning of life. What am I doing here? That kind of stuff. Well, let me tell you I spent all my time looking up words on my Franklin. That's the problem with smart people. They try to prove how smart they are by using words that nobody else understands. In my case, Einstein succeeded. I think he's real smart but I still don't know what I'm doing here.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Einstein was more than a scientist...
Comment: E=MC 2 = God...
Jesus said: If they ask you, "Where are you from?" reply to them, "We have come from the place where light is produced from itself." - The Gospel of Thomas Line 50a
(E=MC 2 means Energy & Matter are a Unity. Light (Photons), the stuff of the Universe, is liquid matter. Matter is frozen energy. Energy (Light) is God. God is the stuff the Universe is made of.)
"If they ask you, "What is the sign within you of your Father?" reply to them, "It is movement. It is rest." - The Gospel of Thomas Line 50c
A Binary system. Yin & Yang. How the Universe operates. How God works. God is not a "person". God is a system. God is an event. God is the law of causality. (Einstein) God is the process of Yin & Yang (Buddha).
Jesus said: If your leaders say to you, "Look! The Kingdom is in the sky!" Then the birds will be there before you are. Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside you. - The Gospel of Thomas Line 3
John 12:28 - Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore that stood by, and heard it, SAID THAT IT THUNDERED: others said, AN ANGEL SPAKE TO HIM. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
They asked him: When is the Kingdom coming? He replied: It is not coming in an easily observable manner. People will not be saying, "Look, it's over here" or "Look, it's over there." Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is already spread out on the earth, and people aren't aware of it. - The Gospel of Thomas Line 113
Jesus said: I am the light above everything. I am everything. - Line 77a
Split wood, I am there. Lift up a rock, you will find me there. - Line 77b
The Universe is made out of God. We are made out of God. If you have no preconceived ideas and are operating in total freedom you are using your mind as nature intended it to work before society (Maya, Illusion) implants false concepts in your head. "Enlightenment" is stopping the false ideas in your mind so your mind will function as free and creative as nature. Then you are "following the Tao" or are "full of Grace" and your actions are the most logical ones to do in any situation without thinking (Without using Logic). This is psychology, not religion. This is Zen. See the exploding miracle of now!!!
I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. - Einstein
I am Oriental by blood. - Einstein
A human being is part of the whole world, called by us "Universe". He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. - Einstein
Einstein was prone to talk about God so often that I was lead to suspect he was a disguised theologian. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer
I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. - Einstein
Customer Rating:
Summary: Accelerated Movement
Comment: This is great reading, important reading. Impressive stuff. I know I'm not the first person to say this but, man that Einstein was a brilliant guy.
"Ideas and Opinions" is a collection of his writings over a lifetime. It is broken up into sections, with some of the more interesting work being well after his scientific genius days. Chapters include writings on freedom, religion, politics, government, pacifism, Judaism and the plight of the Jewish people, as well as a nice sampling of scientific essays.
A major theme that emerged for me, recently re-reading this, is the gradual transformation of creative, rational intelligence into true astute wisdom.
The young mind is still being myelinated, with rapid changes, lots of plasticity, pruning of excess neuronal connections, restructuring of synaptic connectivity. In this stage, memories and emotions are processed by the limbic system but drive the body and the mind by variously igniting or diminishing arousal as mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. The neocortex, particularly frontal lobes communicating with the parietal lobes, are the source of the brilliance of the Theory of Relativity. It takes the ability to think outside of norms, think creatively (maybe time is unreal, maybe matter and energy are the same thing...), and then have the brilliance to think it through, pull it all together. But let's take an honest look. Just about everything Einstein contributed to our scientific knowledge stemmed from thought experiments he did in his twenties. Those were some exceptional frontal lobes, and they were driven to success by a limbic system, but a limbic system speaking through that primitive endocrine axis, that endocrine system that's no more sophisticated than a rat's, little more the a chicken's.
But then something changes. The brain is mostly done sealing over new tracks of neocortex, but the limbic system is being integrated more and more with the neocortex. Emotions and logic learn to communicate in ways that bypass the reptilian paleocortex. This is when religiosity turns into spirituality. This is when lust begins to approach unselfish love. This is the source of the wisdom of the elderly. Obviously, Einstein was exceptionally bright to start with and had a nice head-start here, but one can track his thinking chronologically and really see a continuous process, a developmental process, a mode of intelligence revamping, subtle neuronal renovations yielding a distinct mode of reason.
There's so much to comment on here, volumes could be written interpreting his communications, and probably have been. There are lots of relevant angles to focus on, but nothing broke my heart like reading his essays written between the two world wars, reading these pleas to the people and governments of the world, especially reading this in short spurts on the train after listening to the world news in recent days while I trudge, half-bleary, pre-caffeinated, to the train station:
"Few of us still cling to the notion that acts of violence in the shape of wars are either advantageous or worthy of humanity as a method of solving international problems. But we are not consistent enough to make vigorous efforts on behalf of the measures which might prevent war, that savage and unworthy relic of the age of barbarism. It requires some power of reflection to see the issue clearly and a certain courage to serve this great cause resolutely and effectively"... "this failure is due not only to the intrigues of ambitious and unscrupulous politicians but also to the indifference and slackness of the public in all countries..." Boy, lucky for us we had true intellectuals around, glad we got that under control.
All this stuff I'm fumbling to say, Einstein's on it, he gets it, we see it in a private letter to Sigmund Freud, where he invokes the efforts of "Jesus Christ to Goethe to Kant" in the struggle against violence as the means to an end: "You have shown with impelling lucidity how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up in the human psyche with those of love and life. But at the same time there shines through the cogent logic of your arguments a deep longing for the great goal of internal and external liberation of mankind from war." Yeah, ditto. That's what I'm trying to say.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good book.
Comment: Interesting book, you will find in it something new about six sigma.
I have a book from Pyzdek and one from Brayfogle, but also this one gave me new insite.