Quote #243
There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
More from Albert Einstein
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them.
- The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. -- Einstein, fundraising telegram for the Emergency Committe…
- The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.
- The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)