Circumstances Quote by Albert Einstein

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

— Albert Einstein

“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

— Albert Einstein

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

— David Eagleman

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined…

— Albert Einstein

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due…

— Albert Einstein

I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

— L. Neil Smith