It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of having lofty goals, even if we can only achieve them imperfectly.
Albert Einstein's quote reflects on the significance of setting high aspirations in life, suggesting that while our abilities may fall short of these ambitious goals, the pursuit itself provides direction and meaning to our efforts. It highlights how these goals form a solid foundation for our values and aspirations, driving us forward despite our limitations.
In practice
This quote can inspire students at a graduation ceremony to pursue their dreams.
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.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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