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Albert Einstein Quotes about Understanding

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Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

Albert Einstein
Understanding, Problem, Please

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

Albert Einstein
Men, Understanding, Tasks

Peace comes through understanding

Albert Einstein
Understanding

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

Albert Einstein
Deep Understanding, Understanding, Topics

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Albert Einstein
Children, Men, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein
Humble, Reality, Understanding

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Albert Einstein
Self, Worry, Understanding

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

Albert Einstein
Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein
Joy, Feelings, Understanding

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Albert Einstein
Understanding, Difficult

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Science, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Albert Einstein
Science, Law, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

Albert Einstein
Science, Data, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.188, Open Road Media

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Honesty, Understanding
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.452, Running Press

Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

Albert Einstein
Creativity, Thinking, Understanding

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Albert Einstein
Worry, Understanding, World

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Understanding, Anthropomorphism
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

Albert Einstein
Children, Play, Understanding

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein
Understanding, Relation, Mathematician

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

Albert Einstein
Russia, Lakes, Understanding

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