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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Albert Einstein
Men, Opening Up, Frontiers

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Character, Five Senses
Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.15, Open Road Media

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

Albert Einstein
Powerful, Healthy, Fundamentals

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Attitude, Philosophy

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein
Education, Mistake, School

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Order, Law

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Albert Einstein
Individual, Feels, Insignificance
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.23, St. Martin's Press

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

Albert Einstein
Giving Up, Average, Problem
Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Independent, Science
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Knowledge, Science

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Lying, Thinking

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Albert Einstein
Action, Instinct, Claims
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Order, Play
Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

Albert Einstein
People, Important, Firsts
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.173, Princeton University Press

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

Albert Einstein
Ideas, Process

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

Albert Einstein
Technique, World, Problem

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Albert Einstein
Life, Success, God

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Intelligence, Lasts
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.41, Broadway Books

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

Albert Einstein
Peace, War, Civilization

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Albert Einstein
Sailing, Energy, Velocity

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Albert Einstein
Innovation, Use, Theory

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

Albert Einstein
Science, Horizon, Levels
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.69, Broadway Books

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

Albert Einstein
Men, Self, Passionate
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Albert Einstein
Spirit, Specialization, Depends
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

Albert Einstein
Government, Leader, Political
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.39, Open Road Media

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