You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
Albert Einstein
This quote shows the subtle vision of the great scientist. Machines were not so prominent when this statement was done. However, in the recent times where the machines have taken the most important place in human lives, we can see the actuality in on much amplified level. Today most of the people's life have become impersonal. More and more weight is given on impersonal matters. The relationship between the humans, between the humans and animals, between the humans and vegetations are degrading, we just have to look around, and we will find what Albert Einstein saw. Indeed this is the mark of a genius and productive mind. The mind so much occupied in science and scientific invention, had the ability to see the feelings, the relationships, which are far more important.
The example he states is of the horse which was the primary means of transportations then. He could mark out the difference between the horse and the vehicle (machine) used for the same purpose. One creates feelings, while the other makes one impersonal.
" stultify certain elements in us " points that he was much much aware of his self, of the inner, while so much engrossed with much complex scientific inventions and studies. How great the man was!!!
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