If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.
Interpretation
Focus on the actions and results of scientists rather than just their words.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of observing the actions and achievements of theoretical physicists instead of merely listening to their theoretical discussions. Einstein suggests that true understanding and appreciation of scientific work come from recognizing the tangible outcomes and practical applications of their ideas, which may seem as natural realities to the discoverers themselves, rather than mere constructs of thought.
In practice
In a lecture about scientific methods, one might reference Einstein's quote to emphasize the importance of empirical evidence.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.
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