Each of us owes our food and the roof over our heads to the efforts of other members of society, so we must repay that debt honestly – doing not only work that satisfies us, but also work that is generally believed to serve others. Otherwise we become parasites, however modest our needs may be.
Albert Einstein – Everything that humanity has done and devised so far has sprung from our striving to satisfy our deepest needs and to soothe our pain.
- I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- My feelings are religious in the sense that I am aware that the human mind is too limited to penetrate more deeply into the harmony of the Universe, which we call “the laws of nature”.
- I am a deeply religious non-believer.
- My views are close to those of Spinoza: admiration for beauty and belief in the logical simplicity of the order and harmony that we, in our insignificance, can grasp only very imperfectly. I believe we must accept this imperfection of our knowledge and understanding, and treat values and moral obligations as purely human problems.
- Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, not because she wants to lead us astray.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- God does not play dice.
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity – and I’m not sure about the former.
First published (Polish original): 8 January 2009. Written by astrologers and esoteric specialists working with our editorial team; edited and translated for HOROSCOP.SPACE. © All rights reserved.
