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...major advances in science owe much to intuition and to "being sympathetically in touch with experience." Or, as Einstein put it another time, he came to it by continuing to ask himself questions about space and time that only children ask.

NYT March 28, 72 p 32

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

Einstein from a letter written when he was 70

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God is subtle but He is not malicious.

Nature hides her secrets through her intrinsic grandeur, but not through deception.

...the separation between past, present and future has only the meaning of an illusion, albeit a tenacious one.

...we are much further from a deeper insight into the elementary processes than most of our contemporaries believe...

NYT March 29. 72 p 20 Einstein

One of the nice things about not going to the movies is that you get a lot of surprises.

It is not what Paris gives you, it's what she doesn't take away

Gertrude Stein

April 6. 72

"Is it not as language that all natural objects affect the poet? He sees a flower or other object and it is beautiful or affecting to him because it is a symbol of his thought, and what he indistinctly feels or perceives is matured in some other organ-