Albert Einstein Play Quotations

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

Play is the highest from of research.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.