JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 251
My thanks to Jeff De Cagna for the suggestion of Wordle-ing a favorite Einstein quotation–its a fine idea. What I’ve done is take 200 or so quotes and made one large file of them and fed it into the Wordle-izer with the following results (below) Again Wordle weights words in size according to the number of times it appears in a document, so the resulting image is a wort of word map, a lay of the land if you will of this collection of quotes, showing the words most often used by Einstein (at least in the quotes that I have selected). The longish quote list is below in the continue reading section(unfortunately without source attribution).
Clicking on the image will enlarge it and make it clearer.
It is interesting to note that the largest word here seems to be “can”, followed closely by “one”, which I think is really another way of his saying “you” or “us” or “we”–so, we get “you can” or “we can” or “one can”, speaking to the possibility of possibility, of effort, of moving forward, of trying. Imagination, effort, thought, creation–that’s what the man was all about, and I think that’s what we see in this word map.
