Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
Interpretation
Our perception of what is obvious can change over time and is influenced by our context.
This quote by Albert Einstein suggests that what we consider obvious truths are not static, but rather mutable based on the prevailing knowledge and societal context of the time. As we evolve in our understanding, ideas that once seemed clear and undeniable could appear different or complex, highlighting that our insights and perspectives are shaped by temporal and cultural factors.
In practice
In a discussion about scientific advancements, this quote may illustrate how our understanding evolves.
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.
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
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