WHAT I LEARNED FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN

During the research for CHANGED IN THE NIGHT, I discovered that Albert Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist but also a philosopher.

Here are twelve quotes from Einstein that closely connect with ideas touched upon in CHANGED IN THE NIGHT:

 1) You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

 2) It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

 3) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

 4) To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

 5) Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

 6) There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

 7) The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

 8) That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

 9) All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

10) A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

11) We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

12) You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.