my boy albert einstein

i recently realized the identical intellectual similarities behind albert einstein's and my own thoughts. it amazes me that i was just pondering these same ideas...

"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. "

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. "

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "

"The environment is everything that isn't me. "

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. "

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "

and my favorites and what i find most similar to my own thoughts...

1. "I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws."

2. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."