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  2. Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein

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    Albert Einstein, 1921. Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. [1] Albert Einstein stated "I believe in Spinoza's God". [2] He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. [3]

  3. Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia

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    A flow-of-time theory with a strictly deterministic future, which nonetheless does not exist in the same sense as the present, would not satisfy common-sense intuitions about time. Some have argued that common-sense flow-of-time theories can be compatible with eternalism, for example John G. Cramer’s transactional interpretation. Kastner ...

  4. 35 Brilliant Albert Einstein Quotes to Inspire You to Greatness

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    These Albert Einstein quotes take you right inside the mind of a true genius. The post 35 Brilliant Albert Einstein Quotes to Inspire You to Greatness appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  5. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    As recorded on the first page of Subtle Is the Lord, Pais' biography of Einstein, Pais responded to the effect of: 'The twentieth century physicist does not, of course, claim to have the definitive answer to this question.' [9] Pais' answer was representative not just of himself and of Bohr, but of the majority of quantum physicists of that ...

  6. Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    He did not believe in a personal god who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. [189] He clarified, however, that I am not an atheist, [190] preferring to call himself an agnostic, [191] [192] or a deeply religious nonbeliever. [189]

  7. Philosophy of space and time - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded philosophy of time was expounded by the ancient Egyptian thinker Ptahhotep (c. 2650–2600 BC) who said: . Follow your desire as long as you live, and do not perform more than is ordered, do not lessen the time of the following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit...

  8. B-theory of time - Wikipedia

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    The B-theory of time, also called the "tenseless theory of time", is one of two positions regarding the temporal ordering of events in the philosophy of time.B-theorists argue that the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness, that the past, present, and future are equally real, and that time is tenseless: temporal becoming is not an objective feature of reality.

  9. Timeless universe - Wikipedia

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    The timeless universe is the philosophical and ontological view that time and associated ideas are human illusions caused by our ordering of observable phenomena.Unlike most variants of presentism and eternalism, the timeless universe entirely rejects the notion of the reality of any time, arguing that it is exclusively a human illusion, and since the universe can know no time, no dimension of ...