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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
- If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I…
- We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not…
- Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.
- The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to…
- The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information…
- If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
- [Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You…
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.
- There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in…
- Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his…
- We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn…
- Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as…
- One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as…
- My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony…
- There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are…
- The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as…
- The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.
- 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…
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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov