Albert Einstein Quotes

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

Albert Einstein

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • May
  • Simple

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Moral
  • Authority
  • Lot

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Yoga
  • Planes
  • Keeps

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Together
  • Road

• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Science
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Reading
  • Road
  • Ignorance

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Covered

• It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Racist
  • Asshole

• I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.

  

  Amanda Marcotte
  • Women
  • History
  • Servitude

• Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Road
  • Progress
  • Errors