Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though…
• No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
• It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
• Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
• I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.
• The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I…
• This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents…
• It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to…
• [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means…
• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical…
• Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
• Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
• If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections…
• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
• The gravity is the first thing which you don't think
• The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible
• The world is a dangerous place to live
• Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
• Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
• That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

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