"Intuitive powers played a central role in..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.”
“It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.”
“The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.”
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“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.”
“Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.”
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“In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.”
“Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.”
“[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.”