The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the complexities of the universe can be perplexing despite their apparent simplicity.
Albert Einstein's quote highlights the paradox of understanding the universe; it is both intricate and straightforward at the same time. This duality can make it challenging to grasp its fundamental nature, as the most profound truths often seem evident yet elude deeper comprehension.
In practice
In a presentation on the complexity of the cosmos, this quote can serve as a thought-provoking opener.
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.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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