Okay, I admit it. It's sounds ridiculous. And nerdy. And crazy. Did I mention nerdy??But he's amazing:
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-The Man
He's full of a whole bunch of quotes like this; stumbled upon this one last night and realized how true this is and how much I've been pondering such ideas lately, but also how Einstein is one of those people who knows how to take the formless thoughts in my head that are as of yet undefined very well and state them so...elegantly. The man pretty much defined (or redefined) our universe, and then went on to talk about what that meant for humanity and for this whole World Peace thing, and for religion and God and philosophy. And he was a physicist?? Who does that? Einstein.
What other physicist has pages of quotes on all those quotey websites? Someone once described him in a quote I love by saying the only way he could come close to adequately describing the universe was in the words of poetry. The Man has a way with words. And math. And life, the Universe, and everything.
And on top of all that, he pretty much revolutionized the entire field of physics. And that had repercussions everywhere; on art, on politics, on books, on war.
According to Time, I think he was Man of the Century. To me, he's kinda just The Man.
(And yes, I do have the poster of him sticking his tongue out hanging in my suite. 'Cause it's awesome.)
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