Quotes by Thinking The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them Albert Einstein levelstodaythinking The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it. Albert Einstein democracypoliticalthinking My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. Albert Einstein readingbookthinking If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant. Albert Einstein differenttryingthinking If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him? Albert Einstein givingmenthinking 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 creativityunderstandingthinking Figuring out how to think about the problem. Albert Einstein educationschoolthinking When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology. Albert Einstein teachingmeanthinking All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself. Albert Einstein lightsciencethinking The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein soon-enoughpastthinking I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds. Albert Einstein memorablepeoplethinking We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking Albert Einstein conditionsboundariesthinking Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking Albert Einstein riddleworldthinking 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 atheistlyingthinking 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 playorderthinking There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education. Albert Einstein mindpeoplethinking Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking. Albert Einstein raceorderthinking Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking. Albert Einstein convictionclearthinking During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively. Albert Einstein knowingschoolthinking As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences". Albert Einstein religioussciencethinking«8788899091929394959697»
