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“It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.”

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Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, is renowned for his work on relativity and the photoelectric effect. His contributions revolutionized our understanding of the universe and had a profound impact on modern physics. more

“Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.”

Way May Mystery Creation Bows

Author:Albert Einstein

“Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.”

Problem Understanding Please

Author:Albert Einstein

“Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.”

Thinking Understanding Creativity Casts Spells Haze Hypnotic

Author:Albert Einstein

“I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.”

I Can Two Three Fun Pleasure Example Certainty Flats Gravity Spatial Fooling Around

Author:M. C. Escher

“All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.”

Reality Term Discovery Artistic

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.”

Enjoy Existence Genius

Book:The Story of Art

Source: The Story of Art

“It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.”

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Author:Ernst Gombrich

“The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.”

“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”

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Book:At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

Quote by Albert Einstein

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