Monday, May 24, 2010
Interesting quote in Einstein/Tagore conversation
In an interesting quotation in a conversation between Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore in "A Tagore Reader", edited by Amiya Chakravarty, we find
"EINSTEIN: Modern physics would not say they (free impulse and directive will) are contradictory. Clouds look as one from a distance, but if you see them nearby, they show themselves as disorderly drops of water.
"EINSTEIN: Modern physics would not say they (free impulse and directive will) are contradictory. Clouds look as one from a distance, but if you see them nearby, they show themselves as disorderly drops of water.
TAGORE: I find a parallel in human psychology. Our passions and desires are unruly, but our character subdues these elements into a harmonious whole".
IMO:It is interesting how, as early as 1930, polymath Tagore tries to update Einstein's views to a level perhaps more commensurate with 21st Century views, and of course we are probably left at the very least with the hunches of famous men, and these are hopefully a good deal more illuminating than many opinions.
IMO:It is interesting how, as early as 1930, polymath Tagore tries to update Einstein's views to a level perhaps more commensurate with 21st Century views, and of course we are probably left at the very least with the hunches of famous men, and these are hopefully a good deal more illuminating than many opinions.
# posted by uv : 7:48 PM
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