A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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Albert EinsteinLetter to Dr. H. L. Gordon (1949)
About Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)
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- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Letter to his son Eduard (1930)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.Quoted in 'Death of a Genius', LIFE magazine (1955)
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Reply to the editors of Youth, quoted in The New York Times (1932)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Mein Weltbild / The World As I See It (1931)
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- [Computers] are useless. They can only give you answers.Pablo Picasso
- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.Vincent van Gogh
- All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.Charlie Chaplin
- Isolation makes you sensitive. As a kid, I felt I was the only person who was like that. But there's a good side to isolation. It makes you sensitive, and sensitivity is part of the creative process.Jim Henson
- As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.Jim Henson
- I dream for a living.Steven Spielberg
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