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
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — 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 cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up… — 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
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. — 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
The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in… — 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
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — 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
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