Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Monday my Friends! Added a new book of quotes to the kindle collection. I was in recent discussion about trying to use Amazon less and less, it is not easy. I have so many digital books I am not sure I cam ever be free of Amazon due to that but then again if the kindle went on the fritz I am not sure I would rabidly replace it. On to Thought-Provoking Quotes & Contemplations from Famous Physicists compiled by Murat Durmas. The books opens with Albert Einstein who has so many wonderful quotes, many of them familiar to us. On to Albert!

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

Questioning - a good if at times frustrating reality since the nature of questioning often interferes with the doing that life is often about. Interior questioning should never stop, questioning yourself, your experience and the meaning of your whatness. Questioning others ought to be springboard of discovery and deepened understanding, but sometimes the nature of the question is more inquisitional than curious. How one proposes questions, frames them as it were, often reveals something of their intentions. Of course Albert invites us to use questioning to dive into the experience of life and existence which can often pass us by if we are content to be distracted surface swimmers in life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

This came up in one of our Coffee Talks recently. The relationship between music and mathematics is fascinating. While I am not a great fan of mathematics, I do appreciate music greatly. I wonder if Einstein played an instrument? I tried playing the guitar, piano and flute at varies stages in my childhood, but the lack of discipline and sense of timing made it something that failed to hold my interest. Pushing play is my most musical endeavor, singing occurs too, usually not to the delight of those within earshot.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy to truth.

2020 tested this out to the max. Don't question the science is probably the most antiscientific statement one can make. Blind belief is usually the sole possession of religious zealots, in our secular age when many in the West do not believe in Da Jesus, some great flying spaghetti monster, or even Bob Dobbs. Thankfully in the absence of a Higher Power the government or science has been there to fill the void with new religious zealotry for many. Your patron saint, demi-gods and goddesses are many to choose from and they will happily delight in their celebrity. cough cough Fauci cough cough or any cultural personality that is put on a pedestal and unquestioningly and uncritically adored by the masses. The cult of personality is a dangerous thing. The "cult" part of the descriptor should be warning enough. Ramble over - time for a barn. Happy Monday!

Winter barn somewhere in Montana curtesy of DDG.