Here is a list of phrases that many attribute, perhaps torticeramente, the scientist Albert Einstein and that he never said.
Something as dishonest as falsifying authorship of any statement intended to draw some kind of advantage, usually ideological but always illegitimate , is not a recent practice. The Catholic Church or any of its members, for example, shoehorned a reference to Jesus Christ, an interpolation in the Jewish Antiquities (c. 93 BC.) The non-Christian historian Flavius Josephus the objective to serve as a respectable documentary evidence of their existence, as coming from a non-believer. As Konrad Kujau, a journalist who sold fake diaries of Adolf Hitler by two and a half DEM and millions in 1983. who else seems to have been used to legitimize ideas that are not its own is the scientific Albert Einstein
But since the use of internet and social networks is widespread, one of two: they have increased the powers of forgers or new technologies have been given greater visibility . And some of us extremely tired and stumble upon a text that considers the children “a gift from God” with the signing of atheist Jose Saramago or corny and philosophies written dime more than mediocre style posing as ideas Gabriel García Márquez of Julio Cortazar and others. However, the one more seems to have been used to legitimize ideas that are not its own is scientist Albert Einstein and here I bring a bunch of his apocryphal texts .
God and religion as Einstein
Let’s start with what is, perhaps, the most famous Einstein thank those who have tried to make a believer phrase: ” God does not play dice with the universe “. Actually, the complete reference, which belongs to a letter he wrote to the mathematician Cornelius Lanczos, is as follows: “You are the only person I know who has the same attitude toward physics that I have the belief in understanding of reality through something simple and unified basically … It seems difficult to look at the letters of God. But he plays dice and uses “telepathic” methods … is something I can not believe for a moment. ” It is intended to refer to the comprehensive and orderly essence of the cosmos, not a divine creation . His thinking was close to pantheism, that is, nature was so felt devotion. The thought Einstein was close to pantheism, that is, nature was so was devoted
it is enough to read this explanation of his: “… is a lie all that you have read about my religious convictions, a lie that is repeated systematically. do not believe in a personal God and I have not ever denied, but have expressed it clearly . If something is in me which can be called religious is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world, as far as our science can reveal it “; Or href=”https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion” fragment letter he wrote to the philosopher Eric Gutkind “ the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness ; the Bible is an honorable, but primitive collection of legends nevertheless pretty childish “ div id => “.” // i0.wp.com/hipertextual.com/files/2016/01/frase_einstein_escuela.jpg?resize=610%2C408 “alt =” albert einstein “class =” size-large wp-image-918121 “data-Recalc-dims = “1” /> Narinthorn Nopjinda – Shutterstock
so, if one is given face to face with the signing of Einstein under these words: “Perhaps you could describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of the first order and used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe”, you must be sure that this is a false attribution. And in fact, you would be right, because it is a sentence of theoretical physicist Paul Dirac Einstein. “The Bible is an honorable collection, but primitive, legends nevertheless pretty childish”
Yes, it is true that Einstein also said, “science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind”, but not organized religion nor was referring, of course, beliefs irrational, but to his own idea of the concept: “ I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. Somehow, this is a new kind of religion . (…) I have never ascribed to nature no purpose or objective, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill every thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism “
You have even attributed a statement that some claim referred to an innate morality of divine origin.: “There are two things they admire me, the starry sky out of me and the moral order within me”, but even belongs, as it is more or less wrote Immanuel Kant in his Critique of pure reason . And surely ye have encountered at some point in networks with href=”http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp” a viral story on a child, then emerged as a very young Einstein, arguing with a teacher and says: “evil is the result of the absence of God in the hearts of human beings.” Of course, it is something that never happened .
Other things that Einstein never said
The German scientist is also author of other phrases that circulate the net like a plague . “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”, which is also attributed erroneously to Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin, in the novel Sudden Death , which Rita Mae Brown published in 1983. “When an old and distinguished scientist states that something is possible almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong, “one of the laws of Arthur C. Clarke, can be read in his book Profiles of the Future , 1962.
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It was the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman href=”http://hipertextual.com/2013/08/frases-celebres-ciencia” and no Einstein, who released: “I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics”; in a document of 1963, the sociologist Edward Bruce Cameron, not Einstein, wrote: “… not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”; and anthropologist Ashley Montagu said in an interview with Einstein himself, not this, that “international laws exist only in treaties international law.” The theory of relativity Einstein does not have nothing to do with morality and relativize let alone the truths but with physical
the economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, in his book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered , 1973, he said: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. a touch of genius-and a lot of value-to move in the opposite direction is needed, “no Einstein. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, he will live his entire life thinking it’s a useless “it is not a phrase of his; ni: “Everything is energy and that’s all there is. In sync with the frequency of the reality you want and you can not do anything to get it. It can not be otherwise. This is not philosophy. It’s physics, “ a pseudoscientific nonsense quite unlike him
think .” everything is relative, “a misinterpretation of your theory of relativity formulated to resolve the incompatibility between Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism and therefore has nothing to do with morality and relativize much unless truths.
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and the last thing I have found in networks is a supposed letter from Einstein to his daughter Lieserl, which was given up for adoption and he never met so absurd that it seems impossible someone can swallow that is proper : “There is an extremely powerful force in so far science has not found a formal explanation (…). This universal force is love (…). Love is light, given that enlightens who gives and receives. Love is serious, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity is not extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love revealed and disclosed. For goodness we live and die. Love is God and God is Love. “ cheat and use the reputation of a valuable person like Einstein, such as intelligence, to try to validate his nonsense
Apart from the theism unacceptable and ridiculous such case , which more slaps to the common sense of the apocryphal letter is this: “to give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution on my most famous equation . If instead of E = mc2 accept that energy to heal the world you can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, come to the conclusion that love is the most powerful force that exists, because it has limit”. In view of the above, which seems to have no limits is the nerve of those who cheat and use the valuable reputation that person as the German scientist, such as intelligence, to try to validate his nonsense. If Einstein raised his head …
