We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein Copy Share