No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Interpretation
Ideas are rooted in our sensory experiences rather than divine inspiration.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes that our understanding and conception of ideas are fundamentally linked to our experiences through the five senses. It suggests that creativity and thought are not entirely novel or inspired but stem from the sensory input we receive from the world around us.
In practice
In a discussion about creativity, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of sensory experiences.
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.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
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.
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.
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