"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is
escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,
from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered
nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective
perception and thought."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can
be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
We advance a step farther in our generalisation when we express the
tenet thus: If, relative to K, K1 is a uniformly moving co-ordinate
system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course
with respect to K1 according to exactly the same general laws as with
respect to K. This statement is called
Basically I get out of this the fact that Einstein is a genius and can quite literally think outside of the box. In fact he can think at the box from any angle in multiple dimensions and then describe it. Although I am sure I am not getting this 100%, I do see that the light is working on his end.