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Ideas Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
- Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
- The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
- A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time…
- The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
- I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
- e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual…
- No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
- Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with…
- My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the…
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able…
- It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the…
- I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
- Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
- If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea,…
- Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the…
- The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size
- Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where…
- For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe