For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree unconsciously. For how, otherwise, should it happen that sometimes we "wonder" quite spontaneously about some experience? This "wondering" seems to occur when an experience comes into conflict with a world of concepts which is already sufficiently fixed in us. Whenever such a conflict is experienced hard and intensively it reacts back upon our thought world in a decisive way. The development of this thought world is in a certain sense a continuous flight from "wonder."


"Autobiographical Notes" (1949)

Albert Einstein Quotes

For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree...

For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree...

For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree...

For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree...