Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
Interpretation
While mathematics is valuable, the unpredictability of nature influences our lives more significantly.
Albert Einstein highlights the contrast between the abstract certainty of mathematics and the unpredictable, often uncontrollable forces of nature. He suggests that regardless of our mathematical understanding, we cannot escape the reality of the natural world, which constantly influences and shapes our experiences.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of empirical evidence in science.
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.
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
The _x000D_ Earth would die_x000D_ If the sun stopped kissing her.
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
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