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Letter "A" » Albert Einstein Quotes
«In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
altar, assemblage, belonging, categories, deplete, depleted, depleting, hither, joyful, left brain, mansions, motive power, past times, products, purely, sense of purpose, take to, Temple of, therein, The temple, utilitarian, vivid
«When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.»
«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 everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, a priori, formerly, foundations, respectively
«The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and c»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
consist, mystical, mystical experience, rampant, reproductions, spiritualism, symptom, theosophy, The So, trend
«A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Religion,
Religious love
| Keywords:
devout, religious person, significance
«He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
addition, bear in mind, even a little, his times, in addition, penetrate, recognition, sympathy
«The gravity is the first thing which you don't think»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
«You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.»
«Time is relevant to where you are»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
«It is only to the individual that a soul is given.»
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