I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — 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
I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram! — 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
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — 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
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who… — 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
“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
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — 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
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — 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
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from 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