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Experience Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I…
- The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.…
- The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
- 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…
- I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
- A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- 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…
- Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
- The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
- How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
- The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove…
- The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.…
- The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.…
- Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
- Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to…
- Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he…
- All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and…
- Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that…
- What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we…
- I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
- Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
- The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
- I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is…
- I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila