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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
Germany

The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.



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Quotes for: logic


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Quotes about logic:


Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.





Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.





Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.





The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.





Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.





Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.











Quotes for: experience


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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.





Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Wisdom is the daughter of experience.





Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.





Experience is the teacher of all things.











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Albert Einstein also said...


Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.





The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.












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