“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”
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“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”
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“I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.”
from On the Method of Theoretical Physics, p. 183. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933). Quoted in Einstein's Philosophy of Science http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/
1930s
Context: Our experience hitherto justifies us in trusting that nature is the realization of the simplest that is mathematically conceivable. I am convinced that purely mathematical construction enables us to find those concepts and those lawlike connections between them that provide the key to the understanding of natural phenomena. Useful mathematical concepts may well be suggested by experience, but in no way can they be derived from it. Experience naturally remains the sole criterion of the usefulness of a mathematical construction for physics. But the actual creative principle lies in mathematics. Thus, in a certain sense, I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”
Source: Bangkok Tattoo
Heartlight, co-written with Burt Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sayer
Song lyrics, Heartlight (1982)
“But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.”
Source: That Perfect Someone
