Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — 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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of… — 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
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in… — 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
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
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the… — 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
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. — 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
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be… — 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