We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
''The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on… — 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
![“[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d8d/albert-einstein-33_acknowledge_newton-wrote-to-halley-that-he-would-not_344363.jpg)
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