Trigger alert:
Dear Reader: If you happen to member of either of the
following communities – Toy Dog, Type 1 (mangina)
or a Toy Dog Type 2 (white knight) –
you should not read the rest of this post.
No Toy Dogs need apply – Big Dogs only!
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FULL TEXT: Berlin, July 7. – Dr. Albert Einstein, the famous
scientist, made an amazing discovery relative to America on his trip which he
recently explained to a sympathetic-looking Hollander as follows:
“The excessive enthusiasm for me in America appears to be
typically American. And if I grasp it correctly the reason is that the people
in America are as colossally bored, very much more than is the case with us.
After all, there is so little for them there!” he exclaimed.
Dr. Einstein said this with vibrant sympathy. He continued:
“New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities have their
theatres and concerts, but for the rest? There are cities with 1,000,000
inhabitants. Despite which what poverty, intellectual poverty! The people are,
therefore, glad when something is given them with which they can play and over
which they can enthuse. And that they do, then, with monstrous intensity.
“Above all things
there are the women who, as a literal fact, dominate the entire life in
America. The men take an interest in absolutely nothing at all. They work and
work, the like of which I have never seen anywhere yet. For the rest they are
the toy dogs of the women, who spend the money in a most unmeasurable, illimitable
way and wrap themselves in a fog of extravagance. They do everything which is
the vogue and now quite by chance they have thrown themselves on the Einstein
fashion.”
“You ask whether it makes a ludicrous impression on me to
observe the excitement of the crowd for my teaching and my theory, of which it,
after all, understandable nothing? I find it funny and at the same time
interesting to observe the game.”
“I believe quite positively that it is the mysteriousness of
what they cannot conceive which places them under a magic spell. One tells them
of something big which will influence all future life, of a theory which only a
small group, highly learned, can comprehend. Big names are mentioned of men who
made discoveries, of which the crowd grasps nothing. But it impresses them,
takes on color and the magic power of mystery, and thus one becomes
enthusiastic and excited.”
“My impressions of scientific life in America? Well, I met
with great interest several extraordinary meritorious professors, like Professor
Milliken. I unfortunately missed Professor Michelson in Chicago, but to compare
the general scientific life in America with Europe is nonsense.
[“Einstein Declares Women Rule Here – Scientist Says He
Found American Men the Toy Dogs of the Other Sex. - People Colossally Bored -
Showed Excessive Enthusiasm Over Him for Lack of Other Thinks, He Thinks.” The
New York Times (N.Y.), Jul. 8, 1921, Section (?), p. 9]
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
ReplyDelete― Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein