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Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. and died April 18, 1955. Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who is widely considered to have been the greatest physicist of all time. He was best known for the theory of relativity and specifically the formula, mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
I included some quotes by Albert Einstein because there is some strange overlap between the way he sees the world and how many of the enlightened souls and prophets described the world. Somehow, Einstein seems to have caught in his descriptions of the physical world of Physics what many of the prophets and incarnations saw, that is, that the physical world is an illusion. Buddha also embraced this concept in his teachings of the world of matter. Others writers have also explored the remarkable convergence between the mystical traditions of the world and modern science. However, none of them has done this in a more succinct and convincing way than Einstein, enjoy these few remarkable quotes by the famous physics/mystics is fascinating.
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According to general relativity, the concept of space detached from any physical content does not exist.
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
Einstein
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Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations—in short, by metaphysics.
Einstein
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In our thinking...we attribute to this concept of the bodily object a significance, which is to high degree independent of the sense impression which originally gives rise to it. This is what we mean when we attribute to the bodily object "a real existence." ...By means of such concepts and mental relations between them, we are able to orient ourselves in the labyrinth of sense impressions. These notions and relations...appear to us as stronger and more unalterable than the individual sense experience itself, the character of which as anything other than the result of an illusion or hallucination is never completely guaranteed.
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The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions—that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics—in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically.
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