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
From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty,… — 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
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do.… — 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
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation… — 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
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal,… — 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
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 Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image