“To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).”
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Thinking Quotes — page 744 of 4756
“No scientist thinks in formulae.”
“If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.”
“What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.”
“What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.”
“You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.”
“Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.”
“Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.”
“I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.”
“One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.”
“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.”
“The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.”
“[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.”
“You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.”
“It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.”
“Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)”
“I rarely think in words at all.”
“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”
“Am well. Thinking of you always. Love”
“Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.”