Albert Einstein Quotes

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• By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and…
• Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
• From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there…
• Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
• The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
• We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always…
• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and…
• As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a…
• It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that…
• How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
• How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
• I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be…
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by…
• From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
• For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;…
• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize…

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