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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery…
- To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the…
- Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
- I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
- Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…
- The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.
- Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true…
- What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we…
- I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even…
- Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with…
- I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
- For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion,…
- The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing…
- No scientist thinks in formulae.
- But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security…
- Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow…
- In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as…
- I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is…
- Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.
- It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
- Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
- If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as…
- It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and…
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