I’ll post the quotes in writing for those who cannot access this video, have used their limit of broadband, or are using a device to read text on this blog. These are the quotes from the first 2 minutes.

Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

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Reblogged from dethoan:

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein

Apple’s Steve Jobs speaks about the need to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing because it’s so hard.

Without passion, any rational person would give up. So if you’re not having fun doing it, if you don’t absolutely love it, you’re going to give up. And the ones that didn’t love it, quit. Because they’re sane, right?…Who would put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?

What’s the world coming to? Well, America has adopted the message of change, thanks to President Barack Obama’s positive election campaign.

But will this be a stretch too far for many Americans? Findings of the PEW survey below prove interesting reading.

Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are both devout Mormons according to reports. Both very wealthy men from equally wealthy backgrounds. I haven’t read so much of Romney’s background but I have long found  Jon Huntsman’s entrepreneurial father’s story compelling reading.