Einstein was troubled by the fact that a capitalist society fueled by uncontrolled competition results in the value of labor being wasted away, leading to a nation’s economic turmoil. He said that the economic chaos generated by the capitalist system is the cause of evil. Einstein prophesied ...
Albert Einstein would refer to Galileo years later as the father of modern science. Why Did Freddie Mercury Namecheck Galileo in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"? While it remains a bit of a mystery, there are two prominent theories as to how Galileo came to be part of the popular Queen song....
See also: Carl Sagan on the topic (a must watch), Hitchens, Hawking – Did God Create the Universe? (a must watch), BBC Horizon – What happened before the big bang?, BBC Nothing (a must watch) and ‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss (a must watch). “Some would ask,...
Obviously, just because we don't know how something happened does not mean that a god did it. Relegating an explanation of something to a god is easy; a person doesn't have to think much. Finding an explanation with science often involves hard work and analysis. We can't simply explain...
then you go through the world and look for these problems and solve them. That’s how Einstein found the equations for Brownian motion; how he came up with his theories of relativity; how Planck solved blackbody radiation and thus initiated the quantum theory of matter. They had a good inst...
Right now, we know about as much about the mechanisms of the mind as we did of the body just prior to Leonardo da Vinci. But ignorance is not our birthright, so let's get to carving: Existence happens across three great realms. These realms are self-similar, which means that their ...
—Albert Einstein “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” —Francis Bacon “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ...
who had permission to give speeches on the quad. The deans on call simply stood by and did nothing, and when asked to do something, they said they were powerless. The University cops also stood by, and said they could do nothing without the permission of the deans. (This is the sa...
Using a stochastic approach to quantum tunneling, Linde develops a method to create "the universe in a laboratory." He concludes by observing that this would be "a very difficult job," but if it is true, "Hopefully, he [the other-worldly physicist hacker] did not make too many mistakes...
things do in fact behave, and being a mere description of what they in fact do, you cannot argue that there must be somebody who told them to do that, because even supposing that there were, you are then faced with the question Why did God issue just those natural laws and no others...