Sublime

I remind myself of Einstein’s remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

the study of arbitrary curvatures on manifolds is called differential geometry.

Einstein said, “A human being is part of the whole, called by us the universe. He experiences his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest … this a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.”

I felt, however, that his simplified account of the Einstein field equation of general relativity did need a qualification that he did not quite give.

Einstein has a marvelous statement on that: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no more simple.”

Einstein said, “Not everything that can be measured counts, and not everything that counts can be measured.”