“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — 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
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
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder. — 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
How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to… — 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
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength… — 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
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me. — 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