I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — 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
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — 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
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — 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
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the… — 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