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Certain Quotes by Albert Einstein
- After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are…
- Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people…
- From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there…
- If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;…
- I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
- I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…
- The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities…
- I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in…
- Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not…
- Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
- I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of…
- To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
- But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
- Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense…
- But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security…
- The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
- The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
- Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion…
- I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,…
- We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought…
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