Science Quotes by Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

— Albert Einstein

Experience alone can decide on truth.

— Albert Einstein

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

— Albert Einstein

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

— Albert Einstein

Imagination is the highest form of research.

— Albert Einstein

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

— Albert Einstein

“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.”

— Albert Einstein

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

— Albert Einstein

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

— Albert Einstein

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

— Albert Einstein

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

— Albert Einstein

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

— Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

— Albert Einstein

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

— Albert Einstein

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes…

— Albert Einstein

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for…

— Albert Einstein

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

— Albert Einstein

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them…

— Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it…

— Albert Einstein

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the…

— Albert Einstein

In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of…

— Albert Einstein

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man…

— Albert Einstein

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to…

— Albert Einstein

The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in…

— Albert Einstein

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and…

— Albert Einstein

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

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot…

— Albert Einstein

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and…

— Albert Einstein

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up…

— Albert Einstein

“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not…

— Albert Einstein

“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led…

— Albert Einstein

“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad…

— Albert Einstein

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of…

— Albert Einstein

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open…

— Albert Einstein

“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true…

— Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to…

— Albert Einstein

“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.…

— Albert Einstein