From: fafat@aludra.usc.edu (Vijay Fafat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Einstein on religion..more quotes
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:22:10 -0800
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In article <chaw.722562902@Pluto.Stanford.EDU> Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe)   writes:

>Someone please quote what Einstein had to say about Quantum Mechanics...
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>Chaw@cs.Stanford.edu                                         tat tvam asi



Here are some more interesting quotes either with $include God or general
riff-raff :)


Einstein :

    Quantum mechanics is very impressive but I am convinced God does not play 
    dice.

    God is subtle but surely he is not malicious.

    I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary
    success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
    
  I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic
  sands in order not to face the evil quanta.
 
   I have little patience with physicists who take a board of wood, look for
   its thinnest part and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.


Pauli against Unification : Man will not succeed in joining what God has torn
asunder.

Hawking : Being famous is really rather a nuisance.

Neumann : In Mathematics, you don't understand things; you just get used to 
	  them

St. Augustin : I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to 
	       explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I 
		began explaining it.

St. Augustin (in reply to "What was God doing before creation?) : He was busy
	     creating hell for people who ask such questions.

Hawking on blackholes : Evidently, God not only plays dice but plays blind-
               folded, and, at times, throws them where you can't see them.


Asimov : The true delight is in finding out and not in knowing.

Newton : If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the 
	 shoulders  of giants.

Johny Nash : There are more questions than answers; and the more I find out, 
	     the less I know.

Charles Colton : Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest
	         of the Sciences together and they do the least work.

A critic while commenting on Julian Schwinger's prodigious Math skills : Other
       people publish to show how to do it. Julian Schwinger publishes to show
       that only he can do it.

Schwinger's colleague: Schwinger always pretended that everything he wrote was
a direct revelation from the God. You'd be reading along and suddenly there's
2 neutrinoes - a direct revelation from the Lord!

Pauli (when young) : What professor Einstien has just said is not so stupid.

Schwinger, when informed about Parity violation : Gentlemen, we must bow 
	before Nature.

Glashow on Schwinger's shyness : He suffers from an uncertainty principle.

Bohr : Tomorrow's going to be wonderful since today, I do not know anything.

Banesh Hoffman on duality : The physicists could but make the best of it, and
went around with woebegone faces sadly complaining that on Mondays,Weds. and
Fris., they must look upon light as a wave;on Tue, thur. and Sat as a particle
.  On Sundays, they just prayed!

From John Barrow's book "World within the world" :
  1st law of thermo. says : you can't win
  2 nd law of thermo says : you can't break even.
  zeroeth law says : you can't even get out of the game!
    Similarly,
  Capitalism is based on the false premise that you can win.
  Socialism ------------------------------  that you can break even.
  Mysticism ------------------------------  that you can get out of the game 
						(Nirvana)

Mark Kak : A table of random numbers, once printed, requires no errata.

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The student need not be worried that he was born too late to discover
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