“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough”
-Albert Einstein

Dwell too much on what may happen and you’ll miss what is happening.  

“The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. Scholars, indeed all men, must move forward in the faith of that philosopher who held that there is no problem the human reason can propound which the human reason cannot reason out.”
-Albert Einstein

It is too easy to view world events and abandon hope. We’re all doomed!! 

But not only is hope possible, it is required – a mission and a duty for all caring human beings – for finding a way out of the mess we have made.

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
-Albert Einstein

And if you don’t understand it by now, be prepared to pull an all-nighter figuring it out.

“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.”
-Albert Einstein

When an hour is but a minute, and a minute like an eternity.

“What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?”
-Albert Einstein

Is it possible for a fish to swim its entire life and never know of the ocean?

If so, does it make you wonder what you’re missing, swimming through your own life?

“The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to the grave”
-Albert Einstein

You’re reading this and I’m writing it. Neither one of us matter without the other.

“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.”
-Albert Einstein

To get inside the box, you begin outside it. Innovation is what happens outside the box.

“Liberty is the necessary foundation for the development of all true values”
-Albert Einstein

Without the freedom of mind and spirit, human values grind under the weight of oppression and want.

“We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us”
-Albert Einstein

And, nonetheless, we delight in the eternal mystery with joyful curiosity and a determination to unravel the revelation as best we possibly can.

Einstein’s vision of the world and the universe encompasses the boundary of human imagination. The point where the science of the empirical world intersects with the faith in the spiritual dimension that lies beyond our limited perception. However limited, Einstein stretched that boundary, for which we are eternally grateful. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Albert Einstein takes a break
The Albert Einstein blog will continue the first week of March. In the meantime, in the spirit of Einstein, let’s all stretch.

Stay curious.  

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein

A true education is the sum total of what you know, not everything you’ve been taught.