"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal
of your mind, ..."  Romans 12:2



"As the people here grow colder
 I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
 Like a friend."                   - Kate Bush, "Deeper Understanding"


  A vested interest in understanding is more preciously guarded than any
  other treasure.  It is why men react, not infrequently with something
  akin to religious passion, to the defense of what they have so 
  laboriously learned.  -- John Kenneth Galbraith



         "I submit that an individual who breaks the law that
         conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts
         the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience
         of the community over its injustice, is in reality
         expressing the very highest respect for law."

                                        --Martin Luther King Jr. 


"Small is the number of them that see with
 their own eyes and feel with their own
 hearts."                - Albert Einstein



"As far as the laws of mathematics 
 apply to reality, they are not certain;
 and so far as they are certain,
 they do not refer to reality."
                                -Albert Einstein


     "Even considering the improvements possible... the gas
      turbine could hardly be considered a feasible application to
      airplanes because of the difficulty of complying with the
      stringent weight requirements."
	-- US National Academy of Sciences, 1940

     "It may not be possible to build a vehicle with single-stage-
      to-orbit capability in the mid 1990s."
        -- US National Academy of Sciences, 1990



"First get your facts; then you can distort 
 them at your leisure."              Mark Twain

   Free people keep and bear arms to defend freedom by any means necessary.
  "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
   The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly
   submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
   intelligence." -- Albert Einstein



The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of 
thing.  Anyone who expects a source of power from the formations of these
atoms is talking nonsense.
				Physicist Ernest Rutherford, about 1930


  Seeds, like ideas, don't germinate in concrete.
	- Michael Fullerton
 
 "It doesn't matter; he'll never amount to anything"   |    
     Einstein's headmaster when asked what profession Einstein should follow.

"It seems clear that everybody has got some kind of metaphysics,
even if he thinks he hasn't got any.  Indeed, the practical "hard-headed"
individual who "only goes by what he sees" generally has a very
dangerous kind of metaphysics, i.e., the kind of which he is
unaware...Such metaphysics is dangerous because, in it, assumptions
and inferences are being mistaken for directly observed facts, with
the result that they are effectively riveted in an almost 
unchangeable way into the structure of thought."  - David Bohm


"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are 
  the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently
  are those who try to tell them the truth."	-- H.L. Mencken


   "The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical
   and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
                                                         -- Thomas Edison


"The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be
 the death of science."
       Julian Schwinger, Nobel Laureate Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 7, 1990


"When skepticism is accompanied by intense questioning,
 a mystic is born."
-Nietzsche


"A conservative is a liberal who has been MUGGED."

"If a man is not a liberal at 19, he has no heart;
 If he is not a conservative at 40, he has no head."

   "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the
   orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with
   fates and actions of human beings."

		-Einstein
   
     The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events
     the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the
     side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature.
     For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exists
     as an independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the doctrine
     of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be
     refuted [italics his], in the real sense, by science, for this
     doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific
     knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.
     
     But I am convinced that such behavior on the part of representatives
     of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a
     doctrine which is to maintain itself not in clear light but only in
     the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with
     incalculable harm to human progress. In their struggle for the
     ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up
     the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear
     and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of
     priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those
     forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the
     Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult
     but an incomparably more worthy task...
	- Einstein 
   
     It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious
     convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not
     believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have
     expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called
     religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of
     the world so far as our science can reveal it.
	- Einstein     
   
     I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider
     ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman
     authority behind it.
	- Einstein     
   Of course, the fact that Einstein chose not to believe in Christianity
   does not in itself imply that Christianity is false.


