The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — 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
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. — 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
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
''The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands 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
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. — 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 most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — 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 truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — 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
I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder. — 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