For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
Interpretation
Absurd ideas often lead to innovation and progress, while conventional ideas may not inspire change.
Albert Einstein suggests that ideas that seem absurd or unconventional at first are often the seeds of groundbreaking innovations. If an idea appears to be reasonable and non-controversial, it may lack the potential to challenge the status quo or inspire significant change, indicating that true creativity often lies beyond the limits of traditional thinking.
In practice
This quote can be shared at an innovation workshop to inspire participants.
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.
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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