"We can understand almost anything, but we..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
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“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
“No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.”
“The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.”
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“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.”
“What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you”
“Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.”