Thinking

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.

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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

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At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.

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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

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Don’t think about why you question, simply don’t stop questioning. Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

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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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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

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Figuring out how to think about the problem.

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For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

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I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a ‘matter-of-fact’ habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity.

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I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

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I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

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I see in Nature a magnificent structure… that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

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I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

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I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

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If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

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If we think of the field as being removed, there is no ‘space’ which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

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Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

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It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

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Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

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My deep religiosity […] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

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Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

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