Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes Edited by Arden Bercovitz, Ph.D., CSP
Creativity Quotes
| "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them." | |
| "My only genius talent is inquisitiveness." | |
| "Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." | |
| "It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems." | |
| "Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time." | |
| "Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it." | |
| "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." | |
| "Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose." | |
| "The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says 'Yes' to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says 'Maybe,'and in the great majority of cases simply 'No.'. . . Probably every theory will some day experience its 'No.' Most theories, soon after conception." | |
| "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." | |
| "Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought." | |
| "I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it." | |
| "Imagination is more important than knowledge." | |
| "Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach." | |
| "I rarely think in words at all." | |
| "The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more-or-less clear images which can be `voluntarily' reproduced and combined. The above-mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type." | |
| "Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity." | |
| "The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you." | |
| "All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts." | |
| "The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." | |
| "For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination." | |
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