Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in…
• Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and…
• If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
• We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought…
• The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.
• Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion...
• [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You…
• Time flies when you are having fun.
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration…
• The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
• This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
• What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
• Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
• All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal…
• The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and…
• Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We…
• I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the…
• I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.
• The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
• In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and…

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