Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to… — 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
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
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on… — 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
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
No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order… — 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
“However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and… — 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
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
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
“Then there occurred to me the 'glucklichste Gedanke meines Lebens,' the happiest thought of my life, in the following form. The gravitational… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. — 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