The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine… — 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
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits. — 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 have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses.… — 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
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused… — 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