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Re: Is Einstein a Plagiarist?

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Is Einstein a Plagiarist?
> 
> I head here that
> some of you believe
> that Einstein was a
> plagiarist.
> 
> I wasn't sure what
> Einstein plagiarized...
> cause he is a product
> of his environment...
> 
> but I might have stumbled
> on something that sounds
> like Einstein , but isn't.
> 
> Like if he 'lifted'  somebody
> else idea and everyone is
> calling it his own.
> 
> When in fact
> he is simply quoting
> somebody else quotes
> and he becomes
> known/famous for the
> same quote.
> 
> Like. "Time is an Illusion."
> 
> He stole dat quote/idea!
> 
> from a book
> written by H.P. Blavatsky.

"“Time” is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of
consciousness as we travel through Eternal Duration, and it does not
exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be
produced, [pg 069] but “lies asleep.” The Present is only a mathematical
line which divides that part of Eternal Duration which we call the
Future, from that part which we call the Past. Nothing on earth has real
duration, for nothing remains without change—or the same—for the
billionth part of a second; and the sensation we have of the actuality
of the division of Time known as the Present, comes from the blurring of
the momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our
senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals, which we
call the Future, to the region of memories that we name the Past. In the
same way we experience a sensation of duration in the case of the
instantaneous electric spark, by reason of the blurred and continuing
impression on the retina. The real person or thing does not consist
solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the
sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in
material form to its disappearance from earth. It is these “sum-totals”
that exist from eternity in the Future, and pass by degrees through
matter, to exist for eternity in the Past. No one would say that a bar
of metal dropped into the sea came into existence as it left the air,
and ceased to exist as it entered the water, and that the bar itself
consisted only of that cross-section thereof which at any given moment
coincided with the mathematical plane that separates, and, at the same
time, joins, the atmosphere and the ocean. Even so of persons and
things, which, dropping out of the “to be” into the “has been,” out of
the Future into the Past—present momentarily to our senses a
cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through
Time and Space (as Matter) on their way from one eternity to another:
and these two eternities constitute that Duration in which alone
anything has true existence, were our senses but able to cognize it."


-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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