Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory… — 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
“it is not difficult to understand why the general principle of relativity (on the basis of the equivalence principle) has led to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more… — 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
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“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
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
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like… — 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
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
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general… — 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
