We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — 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
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards. — 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
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — 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
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it… — 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