Albert Einstein Quotes

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• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
• It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces…
• The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part…
• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
• In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;…
• Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but…
• What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity…
• The most practical solution is a good theory.
• What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
• Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
• Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I…
• The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane…
• Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
• Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which…
• Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
• The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,…
• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more…

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