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Concepts Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
- The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have…
- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link…
- What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
- The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,…
- A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more…
- Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within…
- Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
- All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
- Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them…
- Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We…
- It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to…
- Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable…
More Concepts Quotes
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
- All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts… — Albert Einstein
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein
- A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein
- PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your… — Hans Bender
- Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like… — Dan Brown
- Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that… — James Bryant Conant
- The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to… — Freeman Dyson