I can’t think about a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in brief, who is however a mirrored image of human frailty. Neither can I imagine that the individual survives the demise of his physique, though feeble souls harbor such ideas through concern or ridiculous egotisms.(Albert Einstein, Obituary in New York Occasions, смотреть теория большого взрыва бомбей 19 April 1955)
Might I start with an article of political religion? It runs as follows: the state is made for man, not man for the state. The identical could also be said of science. These are previous sayings, coined by males for whom human personality has the highest human worth. I should shrink from repeating them, had been it not that they are eternally threatening to fall into oblivion, significantly in today of organisation and stereotypes. I regard it because the chief duty of the state to protect the person and provides him the opportunity to develop right into a creative personality. (Albert Einstein, 1931, The Disarmament Convention of 1932)
What’s the cause of this transformation? Nothing modified as regards their location and motion towards each other, but only their relation to the reference system. And only this reference system will be thought of because the cause for the change in pressure. This isn’t stunning after the things mentioned above. That this conclusion wasn’t drawn before the relativity principle, was only resulting from the fact that this reference system was beforehand materialized as “aether”. But relativity idea has banished the thought of a corporeal aether.