Quote of Albert Einstein - A new idea comes suddenly and...
Biography - Albert Einstein:
German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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Quotes about idea:
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.
For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: intuition
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
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