Jonathan Woah:
CLASS OF 2009
General Neufchatel High SchoolClass of 2009
Quebec city, QC
Jonathan's Story
Jonathan's schools include General Neufchatel High School.
Jonathan's interests include Nordiques de Québec, Genie Bouchard, Si toi aussi tu trouves que Cupidon ne sais pas viser !. Music he likes includes MaryQueen Pop Band, Francois Couture - Composer, Uriah Heep - Band. Books he likes include The Definitive Recording Guide: For Drummers by Drummers, Medical Humour, Humour. Movies he likes include Back To the Future, The World's End, Woody. TV shows he likes include Les Fils de la Liberté, Lincoln Continental Experience, Touch.
One of Jonathan's favorite quotes is:"“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , October 26,1929. Reprinted in “Glimpses of the Great”(1930).
“Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in an interview with New York Times, March 12,1944.
“I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by E. Salaman in “ A Talk with Einstein”, Listener 54 (1955)
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Fred Wall, 1933. AEA 31-845
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Carl Seelig – March 11,1952. AEA 39-013
“Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.”
—Albert Einstein --- From a letter to Gustav Bucky, 1945. AEA 037-462
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
—Albert Einstein --- From an address at the commencement excercises of Swarthmore College, 1938
The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. . . ” From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 11.
“Regarding sex education: no secrets!”
—Albert Einstein --- To the World League for Sexual Reform, September 6,1929. AEA 48-304
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
—Albert Einstein --- To J. Dispentiere – March 24, 1954. AEA 59-495
“The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger – May 20,1912. AEA 39-655
“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. . . .”
—Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, ca. December 2, 1913. CPAE, Vol 5, Doc.489.
“I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger – April 11,1946. AEA 38-228
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust—we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview by G.S. Viereck , October 26,1929. Reprinted in “Glimpses of the Great”,1930.
“I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Portraits & Self-Portraits by George Schreiber 1935-1936. AEA 28-332
“It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.” ---
—Albert Einstein --- To Elsa Löwenthal, after August 3, 1914. CPAE, Vol. 8, Doc.32.
“Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God’s Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Pauline Winteler – July 3,1897. AEA 29-453
“The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.”
—Albert Einstein --- From Address, October 15, 1936 – Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 60.
“Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.”
—Albert Einstein --- To V. Bulgakow, November 4, 1931. AEA 45-702.
“People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Otto Juliusburger, September 29,1942.
AEA 38-238
“I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.”
—Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 8.
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
---Albert Einstein ---From Mein Weltbild (1934). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 12
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”
—Albert Einstein --- To F.S. Wada, July 30, 1947. AEA 58-934.
“I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality. . . .”
—Albert Einstein --- From address to the Disarmament Conference of 1932 (1931). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 95.
“Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, September 9, 1920. AEA 8-151.
“I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. In the face of all this, I have never lost a sense of distance and the need for solitude.”
—Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 99.
“Music does not influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the release they offer.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Paul Plaut, October 23, 1928. AEA 28-065
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
—Albert Einstein ---. From “My Future Plans”, September 18,1896. CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 22.
“Where there is love, there is no imposition.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Sayen, Einstein in America, 294.
“The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
—Albert Einstein --- From Civilization and Science, October 3, 1933. Quoted in The Times (London), October 4, 1933.
“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in Conversations with Einstein (1920) 65.
“My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.”
—Albert Einstein --- Statement to Abba Eban, November 18,1952. AEA 28-943.
“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in M. Wertheimer, “Productive Thinking” (1959).
“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.”
—Albert Einstein --- To P. Moos, March 30,1950. AEA 60-587.
“As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, February 16,1935. AEA 32-385.
“If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.”
—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, June 27,1920. AEA 36-582.
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in the New York Times, June 20,1932 AEA 29-041
“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”
—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, 1945-1946. AEA 36-570
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in Life Magazine, May 2, 1955
“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by William Miller in Life Magazine, May 2,1955
“To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged. . . .”
—Albert Einstein --- To Gertrude Warschauer, February 5, 1955. AEA 39-532
“The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Reverend C. Greenway, November 20,1950. AEA 28-894.
“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.” —Albert Einstein --- From Address, October 15, 1936. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 62
“I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. . . . Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”
—Albert Einstein --- From an interview 1931. Reprinted in Einstein on Peace, 125
“The heart says yes, but the mind says no.”
—Albert Einstein --- From the Travel Diary, February 13,1923. AEA 29-129
“One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever…”. It is clear from the original that it is definitely not “I”.
To Hans Muehsam, March 30,1954. AEA 38-434.
“A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Ehlers, Liebes Hertz! 45
“He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Die Friedensbewegung, ed. Kurt Lenz and Walter Fabian (1922) 1...Expand for more
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“There is nothing divine about [the scientist’s] morality; it is a purely human affair.” –
—Albert Einstein --- From Mein Weltbild (1934. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 40
“Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Frank, Einstein: His Life and Times, 190.
“A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Dr. Eugenie Anderman, June 2, 1953. AEA 59-097
“Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in P.A. Bucky, Der Private Albert Einstein, 276
“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Barbara Wilson, January 7, 1943. AEA 42-606.
“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.”
—Albert Einstein --- To D. Liberson, October 28, 1950. AEA 60-297
“The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man—though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.”
—Albert Einstein --- From The Goal of Human Existence, April 11, 1943. AEA 28-587
“The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Lincoln Barnett, Smithsonian, February 1979, 74
“If only I could give you some of my happiness so you would never be sad and depressed again.”
—Albert Einstein ---To Mileva Marić, May 9, 1901. CPAE, Vol.1, Doc.106.
“My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in The Tower, April 13, 1935.
“[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Betty Neumann, 1924.
“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by W. Hermanns in A Talk with Einstein, October 1943. AEA 55-285.
“Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by R. W.Clark in Einstein :The Life and Times, 268
“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Jeremiah McGuire, October 24,1953. AEA 60-483
“I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Max Kariel, August 3,1953. AEA 60-058.
“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”
—Albert Einstein --- To T. Lee, January 16,1954. AEA 60-235.
“To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”
—Albert Einstein --- Aphorism, September 18,1930. AEA 36-598
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Ernst Straus in French, Einstein: A Centenary Volume, 32
“Truly novel ideas emerge only in one’s youth. Later on one becomes more experienced, famous—and foolish.”
—Albert Einstein ---To Heinrich Zangger, December 6, 1917. AEA 39-689
“With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, December 24, 1919. AEA 39-726
(“Violence may at times have quickly cleared away an obstruction, but it has never proved itself to be creative.” ) Should read: “Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative”---
—Albert Einstein---From “Was Europe a Success?” (1934). Reprinted in Einstein: Essays in Humanism, 49
“What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.” Should read: “ … the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.”
—Albert Einstein ---From “Autobiographical Notes” in P. Schilpp ed., Albert Einstein : Philosopher – Scientist,(1949) 33.
“. . . My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate position.” Should read: “My scientific goals and my personal vanity will not prevent me from accepting even the most subordinate role”.
—Albert Einstein --- To Mileva Marić, July 7,1901. CPAE, Vol.1. Doc. 114.
“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.”
—Albert Einstein --- From “On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (1933). Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 274.
“The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in interview with A. Aram, January 3, 1953. AEA 59-109
“Whoever is careless with truth in small matters can not be trusted in important affairs.”
—Albert Einstein. --- From draft of address on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of Israel’s independence, April 1955 AEA 60-003
“Without ‘ethical culture,’ there is no salvation for humanity.”
—Albert Einstein---From “The Need for Ethical Culture”, January 5,1951. AEA 28-904
“The economists will have to revise their theories of value.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in J. Sayen, Einstein in America, 150
“I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spiritual things only when they are not tied in with earning one’s livelihood.”
—Albert Einstein --- To L. Manners, March 19,1954. AEA 60-401.
“Morality is the highest importance—but for us, not for God.”
—Albert Einstein --- To M.M. Schayer, August 1927. AEA 48-380
“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”
—Albert Einstein --- To son Hans Albert, January 4,1937.
“I have, for the first time, seen a happy and healthy society whose members are fully absorbed in it.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Michele Besso, May 24, 1924. AEA 7-349
“Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in M. Grüning, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein, 159
“I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.”
—Albert Einstein --- To H. Freund, January 1927. AEA 46-304
“The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by K. Wachsmann in Grüning, Ein Haus für Albert Einstein, 240
“I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.”
—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in P. Michelmore, Einstein: Profile of the Man, 251
“God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in G.J. Whitrow, Einstein: the man and his achievement, 91
“Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Marie Winteler, April 21,1896, CPAE Vol.1, Doc. 18
“What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility. . . .”
—Albert Einstein --- Should read: “What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can comprehend only imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility…”
Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, “AE: The Human Side”, 39
“The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.”
—Albert Einstein – From “Science and God: A Dialogue”. In Forum and Century 83 (1930), 373
“All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Abba Eban, November 18,1952. AEA 28-943
“I wouldn’t want to live if I did not have my work. . . . In any case, it’s good that I’m already old and personally don’t have to count on a prolonged future.”
—Albert Einstein ---To Michele Besso, October 10,1938. AEA 7-376
“I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, March 10, 1917. AEA 39-680
“Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth . . . and a pen in pocket or hand. . . .”
—Albert Einstein --- To Elisabeth Ney, September 30, 1920. AEA 42-545
“My mother has died. . . . We are all completely exhausted. One feels in one’s bones the significance of blood ties.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Heinrich Zangger, March 1920, AEA 39-732
“When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice.”
—Albert Einstein --- From a letter to his son Eduard, 1922
“I am an artist’s model”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by H. Samuel , October 1930. AEA 21-006
“A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
—Albert Einstein --- From “The World As I See It” (1930), reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 8 .
“I have not eaten enough of the Tree of Knowledge, though in my profession I am obliged to feed on it regularly.”
—Albert Einstein --- To Max Born, November 9,1919. AEA 8-142
“Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.”
—Albert Einstein ---Quoted in Daily Express ( London), September 11,1933.
“That little word ‘WE’ I mistrust and here’s why:
No man of another can say “He is I”.
Behind all agreement lies something amiss
All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, AE: The Human Side, 100
“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.”
—Albert Einstein --- Quoted by Moszkowski in Conversations with Einstein, 184
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