“The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — 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
One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and… — 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 have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — 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
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties. — 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