Einstein wondered about the meaning of our existence and purpose of human life our ‘brief sojourn‘ on earth and was convinced that we exist not for ourselves but for others. He wrote: ‘But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy‘
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I am referring to the time earlier when Darjeeling was in its pristine state. During the time when Darjeeling was described as a lovely, beautiful forested land, when she was worthy of being called the 'Queen of Hills' Darjeeling's corrugated hills were beautiful until they were touched by the corrupt minds of humans.
Science is not just a rational pursuit of the reality trying to unravel the mystery of nature around us, but at the core of it all, there lies great beauty and aesthetics. Thus, ‘one of the strongest motives leading to Arts and Science is a flight from everyday life with its painful coarseness and bleak tediousness‘, observed Albert Einstein.
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A diary written by Albert Einstein between October 1922 and March 1923 reveals a darker side of the Nobel Physics laureate.
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