I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Interpretation
The pursuit of understanding higher truths is paramount, while other concerns are secondary.
In this quote, Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of seeking profound knowledge and understanding, particularly about the nature of existence and the universe, while regarding the trivial details of daily life as less significant. It suggests that our focus should be on the bigger picture of life and the fundamental truths rather than getting bogged down by the minutiae that often distract us.
In practice
In a lecture about the importance of curiosity in science, one could use this quote to emphasize the pursuit of greater understanding over trivial concerns.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, _x000D_ but no mouse would ever construct _x000D_ a mousetrap.
Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
All concord's born of contraries.
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
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