To a surprisingly large extent, that is precisely what he had done. It looks as though he had reached the conclusions by pure thought, unaided, without listening to the opinions of others. The conclusions, the bizarre conclusions, emerge as though with the greatest of ease: the reasoning is unbreakable. There is a good deal of verbal commentary.
All of them are written in a style unlike any other theoretical physicist’s. This last paper contains no references and quotes no authority. The third paper was the special theory of relativity, which quietly amalgamated space, time, and matter into one fundamental unity. This was like a conjuring trick, easy when explained: before it, decent scientists could still doubt the concrete existence of atoms and molecules: this paper was as near to a direct proof of their concreteness as a theoretician could give. Another dealt with the phenomenon of Brownian motion, the apparently erratic movement of tiny particles suspended in a liquid: Einstein showed that these movements satisfied a clear statistical law. One, very simple, gave the quantum explanation of the photoelectric effect-it was this work for which, sixteen years later, he was awarded the Nobel prize. Three of them were among the greatest in the history of physics. Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905 five papers on entirely different subjects. To endure ten seconds one would have to change physically. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it's worth it. If it were longer than five seconds - the soul couldn't endure it and would vanish. You don't really love - oh, what is here is higher than love! What's most frightening is that it's so terribly clear, and there's such joy. You don't forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: 'Yes, this is true, this is good.' This. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. It is nothing earthly not that it's heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. “There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved.
But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.” We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point.
And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. This is the root of the failure of harmony. “The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same.
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