One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
