If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Topic: Hope, Innovation, Perception
- Location: California, La Jolla
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Albert Einstein
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
More Quotes from California
More on These Topics
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
