From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: science death metaphysics inner-life
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: albert-einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert EinsteinGravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: love
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinConcepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as “necessities of thought”, “a priori givens”, etc. The path of scientific advance is often made impassable for a long time through such errors. For that reason, it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing the long commonplace concepts and exhibiting those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. By this means, their all-too-great authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, replaced by others if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason.
Albert EinsteinI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: imagination inspirational 1929 viereck-interview
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert EinsteinIt is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: wisdom intelligence learning
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