Quotes About Experience

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

You can never be too smart to know everything. Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

La teoria è quando si sa tutto e niente funziona. La pratica è quando tutto funziona e nessuno sa il perché. Noi abbiamo messo insieme la teoria e la pratica: non c'è niente che funzioni... e nessuno sa il perché!

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things. In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this:--As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Wenn man zwei Stunden lang mit einem Mädchen zusammensitzt, meint man, es wäre eine Minute. Sitzt man jedoch eine Minute auf einem heißen Ofen, meint man, es wären zwei Stunden. Das ist Relativität.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.... This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

Time is an illusion

The most beatiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.

An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.

It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unifying features of a complex of phenomena which present themselves as quite unconnected to the direct experience of the senses.

one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic. I believe he should speak out freely on what he sees and feels, for by so doing he may perhaps prove himself useful.