Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success. Albert Einstein More Quotes by Albert Einstein More Quotes From Albert Einstein It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a 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 teaching mistake education The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. Albert Einstein fundamentals life art A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. Albert Einstein disappointment inspirational life All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five. Albert Einstein learning education people If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will. Albert Einstein moon taken men I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues. Albert Einstein statistics trying years Nonsense, seems to sum up everything. Albert Einstein nonsense seems In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. Albert Einstein oblivious sailboat world Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. Albert Einstein electrons connected moving The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes. Albert Einstein independent race men There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. Albert Einstein life-and-death destiny moving Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Albert Einstein science reality thinking Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made. Albert Einstein knowing helping-others men I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein religious god inspirational Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein attitude inspirational character People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it. Albert Einstein conscious animal people The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion. Albert Einstein creativity independent science The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein powerful change inspirational The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself. Albert Einstein dark math years Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. Albert Einstein physics law mean
