I can’t imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our personal — a God, briefly, who is but a mirrored image of human frailty. Neither can I imagine that the individual survives the demise of his physique, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts via concern or ridiculous egotisms.(Albert Einstein, Obituary in New York Instances, теория большого взрыва бесплатно в хорошем 19 April 1955)
Might I begin with an article of political religion? It runs as follows: the state is made for man, not man for the state. The identical may be said of science. These are previous sayings, coined by men for whom human personality has the very best human value. I should shrink from repeating them, had been it not that they’re without end threatening to fall into oblivion, particularly in lately of organisation and stereotypes. I regard it as the chief responsibility of the state to guard the individual and give him the chance to develop into a inventive character. (Albert Einstein, 1931, The Disarmament Convention of 1932)
What’s the reason for this change? Nothing modified as regards their location and motion towards one another, however solely their relation to the reference system. And only this reference system could be thought-about because the cause for the change in force. This is not surprising after the issues stated above. That this conclusion wasn’t drawn before the relativity idea, was solely on account of the fact that this reference system was beforehand materialized as “aether”. But relativity theory has banished the concept of a corporeal aether.