I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Interpretation
The pursuit of understanding higher truths is paramount, while other concerns are secondary.
In this quote, Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of seeking profound knowledge and understanding, particularly about the nature of existence and the universe, while regarding the trivial details of daily life as less significant. It suggests that our focus should be on the bigger picture of life and the fundamental truths rather than getting bogged down by the minutiae that often distract us.
In practice
In a lecture about the importance of curiosity in science, one could use this quote to emphasize the pursuit of greater understanding over trivial concerns.
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.
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.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, _x000D_ but no mouse would ever construct _x000D_ a mousetrap.
For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds then there will be no bohemianism because there will be no so-called collective mind trying to dominate people. Then everybody will be at ease with himself. Of course, you have not to interfere with anybody, but as far as your life is concerned you have to live it on your own terms. Then only is there creativity. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.
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