[quote]Deorum wrote:
Don’t believe me? Try to make sense of some of Einstein’s work(using a generic example). If Einstein walked up to you today and poured his entire body of knowledge on you, you would likely call him a quack and dismiss it all without even attempting to understand it.
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I actually understand all of Einstein’s work and then some…but I’m a theoretical physicist who studies gravity…lol. Any theoretical physicist today actually has a MUCH larger body of knowledge than Einstein ever did. That’s just the way it works. I would only call Einstein a quack for dismissing quantum physics.
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I don’t think deorum was talking about people like you, lol. And in Einstein’s case, it is perhaps better to talk about his intelligence rather than body of knowledge. Clearly, the guy had something more going on in his lobes than 99% of the population.[/quote]
I know, I know. I was just giving OP a hard time, because I’m a nerd. I could open a whole other discussion about what YOU mean by “intelligence” here, because everyone has a different notion. What made Einstein stand out was his creativity. He was able to piece together tools/ideas from earlier mathematicians to describe the universe in a completely revolutionary way…and a more correct way too.
There’s no way of saying he had more going on in his lobes than 99% of the population. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of Richard Feynman, but he’s another great mind coming from particle physics who made quantum field theory more accessible to the general population with some popular literature. He won a nobel prize and is regarded as one of the greatest minds to pass through the particle physics communitiy. Yet, he was recorded as having an IQ in the 50th percentile…just AVERAGE! [/quote]
Would love to hear about what’s going on in the study of gravity. Start a thread![/quote]
hmmm…not sure that would get much of a following. [/quote]
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” -Roger Miller-
“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, “Is it half full or half empty?” So I drank the water. No more problem.” -Alexander Jodorowsky-
“Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.” Zen Buddhist Proverb
The last one I like…having just spent a week in Lapland without running water, heaters and WC indoors. Carrying water from the small river nearby, chopping wood and beginning a day by making a fire into stove to get some heat after a -25 celsius night. Very therapeutical in this day of facebooks, iPods and whatever…
Lastly my favorites from my favorite, Vince Lombardi:
“It’s not whether you fall, it’s whether you get up.”
“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
The one thing to let go of when searching for union with “god” or “truth” is the search for union with “god” or “truth” itself.
For by searching for them you are constantly acting as if they were seperate from you.
I forget where I originally read this (or words to this effect) so quote is not exact, but it had a profound effect on me.
“Everything is realative is an absolute statement” is also good for a laugh at dinner parties.
Voltaire has so many goodies it is hard to know where to start…
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills”.
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”.
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”.
