If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — 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
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. — 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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — 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… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — 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
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual… — 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
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws… — 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
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — 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
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
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
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. — 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
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