Various Thoughts from Einstein

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“We all dance to a mysterious tune, and the piper who plays this melody from an inscrutable distance – whatever name we give him – Creative Force or God – escapes all book knowledge.”

“Science is never finished because the human mind only uses a small portion of its capacity, and man’s exploration of his world is also limited.”

“Let us accept the world is a mystery. Nature is neither solely material nor entirely spiritual.”

“I believe I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects.”

“The world needs moral impulses which, I’m afraid, won’t come from the churches, heavily compromised as they have been throughout the centuries.”

“If we want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus & Gandi have done more for humanity than science has done.”

“Religion & Science go together. As I’ve said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal – the search for truth.”

“Many people think that the progress of the human race is based one experiences of an empirical, critical nature, but I say that true knowledge is to be had only through a philosophy of deduction. For it is intuition that improves the world, not just following a trodden path of thought.”

“Intuition makes us look at unrelated facts, and then think about them until they can all be brought under one law. To look for related facts means holding onto what one has instead instead of searching for new facts.”

“Intuition is the father of new knowledge, while empiricism is nothing but an accumulation of old knowledge. Intuition, not intellect, is the ‘open sesame’ of yourself.”

“Indeed it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.”

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