Theory Quotes by Albert Einstein

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”

— Albert Einstein

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

— Albert Einstein

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

— Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

— Albert Einstein

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

— Albert Einstein

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

— Albert Einstein

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

— Albert Einstein

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and…

— Albert Einstein

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

— Albert Einstein

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

— Albert Einstein

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

— Albert Einstein

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

— Albert Einstein

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

— Albert Einstein

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a…

— Albert Einstein

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…

— Albert Einstein

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and…

— Albert Einstein

What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on…

— Albert Einstein

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,…

— Albert Einstein

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The…

— Albert Einstein

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me:…

— Albert Einstein

“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who…

— Albert Einstein

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen…

— Albert Einstein

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the…

— Albert Einstein

A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order…

— Albert Einstein

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge…

— Albert Einstein

“However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn…

— Albert Einstein

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I…

— Albert Einstein

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and…

— Albert Einstein

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man…

— Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like…

— Albert Einstein

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.…

— Albert Einstein

“Then there occurred to me the 'glucklichste Gedanke meines Lebens,' the happiest thought of my life, in the following form. The gravitational…

— Albert Einstein

The most practical solution is a good theory.

— Albert Einstein

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

— Albert Einstein

“It is the theory which decides what can be observed”

— Albert Einstein

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

— Albert Einstein

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

— Albert Einstein

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

— Albert Einstein