Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Albert Einstein#Opinion#Certain#Function#Obviousness

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.

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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

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All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

#Albert Einstein#Thinking#Responsible#Circumstances#Certain#Levels#Results#Want#Conditions#Our Lives#Ifs

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

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From a certain temperature on, the molecules ‘condense’ without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Attractive#Certain#Force#Molecules#Temperature#Theory#Velocity#Zero