Albert Einstein Quotes About Time And Space

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

• Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Science, Thinking

• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, God, Math

  "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

• Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Space, Investing

• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Space, Intellectual, Development

  "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 27), 1971.

• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Thinking, Space

• When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Space, Matter

• Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

  Albert Einstein

  Space, People, Matter

• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

• The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Space, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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