Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. — 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
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
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — 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
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — 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
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain… — 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
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“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 scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it… — 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
“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect… — 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
“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
“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — 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
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share
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
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