I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to… — 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
“If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society… — 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
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 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
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a… — 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
