我們或許現在還無能力製作「愛」的炸彈,以消滅正在摧毀這個星球的仇恨、自私和貪婪。然而,我們每個人身上都擁有一個雖小但有威力的「愛」的發射器,能夠發射愛的能量。
--艾伯特‧愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein)
著名科學家艾伯特‧愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein)的27封信,內容談及對神、宗教、原子彈等的觀點,6月11日在洛杉磯拍賣出42萬美元。
在當時進化論盛行的環境中,愛因斯坦雖具備領先科學界的聲望,但仍未能將他的對道德和神明的認知公布於眾,只在給女兒的信中,表達了他的真實想法。「當科學家們探索宇宙時,他們忽略了這最具威力卻看不見的力量。「愛」是力量,他把我們擁有最好的東西又加倍變得更好,他使人類不會因無知、自私而被毀滅」,「此力量可以解釋任何事情,並賦予生命之意義」。
大科學家牛頓也曾表示:「從諸天文系的奇妙安排,我們不能不承認這必是全知全能的高級生命的作為。宇宙間一切有機無機的萬象萬物,都是從永生真神的智慧大能而來。」
多年前,聯合國曾經用世界著名的蓋洛普民意調查方法進行了一項調查,調查最近300年間的300位最著名的科學家是否相信神。其中除38位因無法查明其信仰而不計以外,其餘262位科學家中,不信神者僅20人,占總數的7.6%;信神者則有 242人,占92.4%。
以下是愛因斯坦寫給女兒的信的全文:
當我提出相對論時,沒有多少人理解我,在此信中我透露給人類的也會與世人的觀念和偏見抵觸。因此,我懇請你盡量保藏這些信數年以至幾十年,直到社會進展到能夠理解我在這信中所揭示出來的。
在宇宙中存在著一種極其巨大的力量,至今科學還沒有探索到合理的對其的解釋。此力量包容並主宰其他一切,他存在於宇宙中的一切現象背後,然而人類還沒有認識到他。
這個宇宙的力量就是「愛」。
當科學家們探索宇宙時,他們忽略了這最具威力卻看不見的力量。
「愛」是光,照亮那些給予和接受他的人。
「愛」是引力,他使得人們彼此相吸。
「愛」是力量,他把我們擁有最好的東西又加倍變得更好,他使人類 不會因無知、自私而被毀滅。「愛」可以揭示、「愛」可以展現。
因「愛」,我們生存及死去。
「愛」是神明,神明就是「愛」。
此力量可以解釋任何事情,並賦予生命之意義。我們已經忽略他太久了,或許是因為我們懼怕「愛」 - 這宇宙中人類尚未能隨意運用的能量。
為讓人類能了解「愛」,我在我最著名的方程式,E=mc2,做了一個簡單的替換,如我們能認可,從「愛」乘以光速的平方而獲得的能量足以治癒這個世界的話,我們將會得出這一結論:「愛」是宇宙中最巨大的力量,因為他沒有極限。
人類試圖利用和控制了宇宙中的一些能量,然而這些能量卻被用來毀滅自己。我們現在急需能真正滋養我們的能量。如果我們人類還希望存活下去,我們就應尋求生命的意義。如果我們還想拯救這個世界和這個世界中的生命,「愛」則是唯一的答案!
我們或許現在還無能力製作一個「愛」的炸彈,以消滅正在摧毀這個星球的仇恨、自私和貪婪。然而,我們每個人身上都擁有一個雖小但有威力的「愛」的發動機,這個發動機正等待發射愛的能量。
當我們學會如何給予和接納這個宇宙的能量,我的孩子,我們將能斷言「愛」,無所不能的,超越一切,因為他就是生命的全部。
我後悔未能早些表達上述存於我心中的一切。也許現在道歉已遲,但時間是相對的,我還是要告訴你,我愛你也謝謝你,我因你而得到了生命的最終答案!
你的父親
愛因斯坦 Albert Einstein (posted by Rafeal Tellez-Giron on FB)
A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter: on The Universal Force of Love
I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it's too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! "
In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein.
I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.
"When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. This universal force is LOVE.
When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force. Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it. Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals. For love we live and die. Love is God and God is Love.
This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.
To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation. If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…
If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.
However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.
I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it's too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! ".
Your father,Albert Einstein (posted by Rafeal Tellez-Giron on FB)
(本文譯自A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter: on The Universal Force of Love by Katrin Chrysaphis)
「科學無法否認神存在 我們應確信神的存在」
艾伯特‧愛因斯坦(Albert Einstein)是公認的最偉大科學家。1905年,26歲的愛因斯坦剛從大學畢業,在瑞士專利局擔任三等技師,利用業餘時間在一年之內完成6篇具有劃時代意義的論文。其中包括「狹義相對論」和「質能轉換方程式(E=mc2)」。他在1921年獲得諾貝爾物理學獎。
有一天,有位記者訪問愛因斯坦,請他發表對宗教及神存在問題的看法。正好,愛因斯坦剛送走一位客人。愛因斯坦問:「記者先生,您是否知道是誰將咖啡杯等物放於此處的?」記者答道:「自然是閣下。」
愛因斯坦接著說:「小如咖啡杯等物,尚且需要一種力量來安排;那麼您想一想,宇宙擁有多少星球,而每一星球均按一定軌道運行無間,這種安排運行力量的即是神。」
愛因斯坦又說:「也許閣下會說:『我沒看見過,也沒聽到過神,那麼我如何相信神的存在呢?』是的,您具備了五感:視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、味覺、觸覺,但這五種感官是有其限度的,例如聲音,只有在20赫茲~20,000赫茲範圍內的波長,人才能聽到……」
訪談最後,愛因斯坦說到他相信「神」的存在:「因此,今天科學沒有把神的存在證明出來,是由於科學還沒有發展到那種程度,而不是神不存在。總而言之,人的五種感覺是有限制的,無法感覺出神的存在,科學也無法否認神的存在。因此,我們應該確信神的存在。」