“I want to know how God created this world. I’m not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” - Einstein
Great to quote this to agnostics, who appropriate Einstein.
Contrast to the founder of relativism - Immanuel Kant, the omni-pulverizer as poet Heinrich Heine named him.
"What a strange contrast did this man's outward life
present to his destructive, world-annihilating thoughts!
In sooth, had the citizens of Königsberg had the least
presentiment of the full significance of his ideas, they
would have felt a far more awful dread at the presence of
this man than at the sight of an executioner, who can but
kill the body. But the worthy folk saw in him nothing
more than a Professor of Philosophy, and as he passed
at his customary hour, they greeted him in a friendly
manner and set their watches by him. "
Immanuel Kant founded the Romantic Movement, relativism.
At Paris 1927 Solvay Conference a reporter badgered Einstein as being a Kantian - Einstein's response, strong German accent:
“I want to know how God created this world. I’m not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” - Einstein
Great to quote this to agnostics, who appropriate Einstein.
Contrast to the founder of relativism - Immanuel Kant, the omni-pulverizer as poet Heinrich Heine named him.
"What a strange contrast did this man's outward life
present to his destructive, world-annihilating thoughts!
In sooth, had the citizens of Königsberg had the least
presentiment of the full significance of his ideas, they
would have felt a far more awful dread at the presence of
this man than at the sight of an executioner, who can but
kill the body. But the worthy folk saw in him nothing
more than a Professor of Philosophy, and as he passed
at his customary hour, they greeted him in a friendly
manner and set their watches by him. "
Immanuel Kant founded the Romantic Movement, relativism.
At Paris 1927 Solvay Conference a reporter badgered Einstein as being a Kantian - Einstein's response, strong German accent:
Chacun a son quant-a-soi !
A relativist's truthful answer to relativism!