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
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all… — 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
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics… — 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
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Tow things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe . — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — 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
