You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — 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
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — 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
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of… — 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
The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we… — 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
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. — 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
