Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that while the universe may be vast and unknowable, human foolishness appears constant and certain.
In this quote, Albert Einstein humorously reflects on the greatness of the universe compared to the perpetual nature of human folly. By stating that he is uncertain about the infinity of the universe, he emphasizes a deep, yet light-hearted commentary on the seemingly boundless capacity for human ignorance and the absurdity exhibited by people throughout history.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of education and critical thinking.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.
What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Do unto others what you want done unto you.
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