 | Frank Durham, Robert D. Purrington - Computers - 1985 - 300 pages
...by choice, Einstein found the experience at Bern salutary. "I soon learned to sort out that which is able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitudes of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential." 5 Soon he was producing... | |
 | Marjorie Grene, Debra Nails - History - 1986 - 366 pages
...in this confession of his 'Autobiographical Notes', about his research in physics: "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential" (Schilpp, 1951, p. 17). This is an indication, largely confirmed elsewhere, of Einstein's research... | |
 | Barbara Lovett Cline - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 292 pages
...science also was divided into many separate fields of study, each one difficult, he was able, he said, "to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else." (Later, however, he would regret that he had not studied more mathematics. For many years his second... | |
 | Ralph Baierlein - Science - 1992 - 350 pages
...Again, as he related in his "Autobiographical Notes," In this field [physics], however. I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...up the mind and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was. of course, that one had to cram all this stuff into one's head for the examinations,... | |
 | Jong-Ping Hsu, Leonardo Hsu - Science - 1998 - 488 pages
...insufficiently connected experimental data was overwhelming here also. In this field, however, I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential... But he realized, from his own experience, and from the great revolutions in physics in the early years... | |
 | Gerhard Zecha - Education - 1999 - 284 pages
...physics ... my interest in the knowledge of nature was also unqualifiedly stronger ... I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...up the mind and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the... | |
 | Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 1999 - 825 pages
...themselves to the mind of the inventor." And Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "In physics I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential." Research shows that a special sensitivity... | |
 | Robert J. Sternberg - Psychology - 1999 - 508 pages
...to the mind of the inventor" (1952, p. 36). Einstein is quoted as saying, "In physics 1 soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential" (quoted in Gardner, 1993a, p. 1o4). INTRAPERSONAL... | |
 | Charles H. Kramer - Creative ability - 2000 - 306 pages
...transformative. When you do not have that leverage, you just grind along. Einstein speaks for me, "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals...from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential."8 Do Therapy as Well as You Can Psychotherapy... | |
 | William H. Cropper - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 518 pages
...office, as Einstein found it, was a "kind of salvation." The work was interesting, and not demanding; without the pressures of an academic job, he was free...clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential." Einstein had tried to place himself higher professionally, but his prospects after graduating from... | |
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential. 
