Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.

It Is, In Fact, Nothing Short Of A Miracle That The Modern Methods Of Instruction Have Not Yet Entirely Strangled The Holy Curiosity Of Inquiry; For This Delicate Little Plant, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom; Without This It Goes To Wrack And Ruin Without Fail. It Is A Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

How Can Cosmic Religious Feeling Be Communicated From One Person To Another, If It Can Give Rise To No Definite Notion Of A God And No Theology? In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Receptive To It.

Man Tries To Make For Himself In The Fashion That Suits Him Best A Simplified And Intelligible Picture Of The World; He Then Tries To Some Extent To Substitute This Cosmos Of His For The World Of Experience, And Thus To Overcome It. This Is What The Painter, The Poet, The Speculative Philosopher, And The Natural Scientists Do, Each In His Own Fashion. Each Makes This Cosmos And Its Construction The Pivot Of His Emotional Life, In Order To Find In This Way Peace And Security Which He Can Not Find In The Narrow Whirlpool Of Personal Experience.

May The Conscience And The Common Sense Of The Peoples Be Awakened, So That We May Reach A New Stage In The Life Of Nations, Where People Will Look Back On War As An Incomprehensible Aberration Of Their Forefathers!

Each Ray Of Light Moves In The Coordinate System 'at Rest' With The Definite, Constant Velocity V Independent Of Whether This Ray Of Light Is Emitted By A Body At Rest Or A Body In Motion.