Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. — 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
“If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. — 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
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — 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
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world… — 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
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
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — 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
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
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
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image