Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.
And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
We found there were people doing acupuncture, meditation, naturopathy and other forms of alternative or complementary medicine ... but it was being done in a disorganized way,
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!
Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
You can't solve a problem on the same level you created it.
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.