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were you guys aware einstein wrote FDR a letter in 1936 warning him of germany's work in bulking up it's military -- especially it's efforts to build 'the bomb'?
history channel will have a special on it soon. i'll get back to you on time and date.
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Where's the love for Einstein?
Imagine being a pacifist and knowing of the potential of nuclear weapons being developed and urging FDR to look into its possibilities. His letter was the first of several steps leading to the Manahattan Project.
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You should read a play or see a play called Copenhagen; it's about Bohr and Heisenberg's ethical struggle with Germany's nuclear program. Interesting stuff.
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Orpheus wrote:
You should read a play or see a play called Copenhagen; it's about Bohr and Heisenberg's ethical struggle with Germany's nuclear program. Interesting stuff.
I think I saw the film version on PBS. Mmmm public television...
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein wrote:
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein wrote:
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
Einstein's writings on religion are frequently associated with pantheism, a non-religious spirituality that regards the natural world as definitionally equivalent to God, and deism, a natural religion that has become identified with the belief that God created the universe but does not intervene in the world. Although he was raised Jewish, he was not a believer in the religious aspect of Judaism, though he still considered himself an ethnic Jew.
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Einstein wrote:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
That's some good shit, there!
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B wrote:
Einstein wrote:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
That's some good shit, there!
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meatwad wrote:
B wrote:
Einstein wrote:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
That's some good shit, there!
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Rise. Life is in motion...
don't it make you smile? don't it make you smile? when the sun don't shine? (shine at all) don't it make you smile?
were you guys aware einstein wrote FDR a letter in 1936 warning him of germany's work in bulking up it's military -- especially it's efforts to build 'the bomb'?
history channel will have a special on it soon. i'll get back to you on time and date.
Albert Einstein wrote:
I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt.
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Mind of Meddle wrote:
corduroy_blazer wrote:
were you guys aware einstein wrote FDR a letter in 1936 warning him of germany's work in bulking up it's military -- especially it's efforts to build 'the bomb'?
history channel will have a special on it soon. i'll get back to you on time and date.
Albert Einstein wrote:
I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt.
burn my fingers? huh?
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
were you guys aware einstein wrote FDR a letter in 1936 warning him of germany's work in bulking up it's military -- especially it's efforts to build 'the bomb'?
history channel will have a special on it soon. i'll get back to you on time and date.
Albert Einstein wrote:
I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
Mind of Meddle wrote:
corduroy_blazer wrote:
Mind of Meddle wrote:
corduroy_blazer wrote:
were you guys aware einstein wrote FDR a letter in 1936 warning him of germany's work in bulking up it's military -- especially it's efforts to build 'the bomb'?
history channel will have a special on it soon. i'll get back to you on time and date.
Albert Einstein wrote:
I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to Roosevelt.
burn my fingers? huh?
I guess it's hard to write with burnt fingers.
_________________ No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it? We gotta watch our backs
"The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion."
My favorite Einstein quote. Thats a shout out to people who are closed minded when it comes to ghosts, ufos what have ya. Proof of life after death just might be the center of true religion.
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