A Soulful Journey

"We ought to have declared war on Germany the moment Mr. Hitler's police still Einstein's violin."  - George Bernard Shaw When people show callousness and mean-spirited behavior at the trivial, we are all in danger.

Someone once said that all of Copernicus was in Newton and that all of Newton was in Einstein, who said, “My inner and out life is built on the labors of my fellow man, living and dead…I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.” We stand on the shoulders of the past.

The quotation on the page facing Einstein playing his violin in 1941 says, “This is what I have to say about Bach’s life work: Listen, play, love, revere – and keep your mouth shut.”

Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University. A guest asked to be shown his laboratory. Einstein smiled, held up his pen, and pointed to his head. The gift is already there .