Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of viewing the world without personal biases, allowing a true appreciation for art and science.
Einstein suggests that when we transcend our individual desires and ambitions, we can engage with the world in a more profound way. It is in this state of freedom and curiosity that we can truly appreciate the beauty and complexity of both art and science, as we view them without the cloud of our personal hopes and wishes.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of creativity in education, you might say, 'As Albert Einstein pointed out, where the world ceases to be shaped by our personal desires, we can engage with art and science more freely.'
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.
It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
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