Quote of Albert Einstein - The supreme task of the physicist...
Biography - Albert Einstein:
German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung [literally, empathy or 'feeling one's way in'] is developed by experience.
See also...
Quotes about logic:
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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