Albert Einstein Quotes About Perception

• It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

  Albert Einstein

  Perception, World, Behinds

• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Learning

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

• It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Music, Discovery, Perception

• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

• We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Perception, Remember

• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

• A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Goal, Perception

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

• Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Perception, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.116, Open Road Media

• The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Men, Emotional

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Math, Reality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.21, Open Road Media

• On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

  Albert Einstein

  Hands, Perception, Impression

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.152, Open Road Media

• Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

  Albert Einstein

  Perception, Conjunctions, Certain

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.402, Running Press

• The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Perception, World

• The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Independent, Science

  "Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" by Albert Einstein, 1931.

• A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Wise, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein's Essays in Science”, p.2, Courier Corporation

• In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Perception, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

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