Einstein !

I just finished reading a book about Albert Einstein. He was a funny dude. He was a man that brought light to the entire 20th Century. He had quirks that made him special and I think palatable to others that felt inferior in his presence. I am not sure what all he lead us into, but I am sure that he made the world THINK! e=mc2 is not something we can all get into, but some smart people did and we have a different world today.

The thing I liked about him was the things he said. If you leave out E=MC2, and listen to what he said to us when he was being "normal", he left us much more than what Atomic energy was!

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Now that was something that we all needed to know!

"The must incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." Great, now explain to me when if both the earth and the moon are spinning thru the universe at the same time, when have we only ever seen one side of the moon!

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Attaboy, Albert, we thank you for that one! It makes us all human.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." Wow, here is one that we should take to heart. I get it! More importantly I try to live by it.

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." Well, he never met 'Lishous. She'd have curled his white whiskers for sure.

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." My grandmother couldn't find her way home half the time. I could never explain anything to her, she was an IGMO, so this one don't make sense at all.

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." Now this is where cell phones came from. He WAS way before his time! I mean with explanations like this, why didn't we just make him king of the world and forget democracy.

"When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!" I hope so, that way we'll only bruise each other and eventually get tired and quit and each go back home.

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S RELATIVITY."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." Why, I bet you never knew that. We had to have a genius explain this one to us? Albert was a bit into the red wine one day when he said this, but it does explain the old saying, "A wet bird never flies at night"!

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Now I don't get this one, but then I ain't no Einstein !!

just thought you'd like to know....