You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his… — 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