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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
- 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…
- 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 physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where…
- The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or…
- I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the…
- Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of…
- There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it…
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an…
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- The only source of knowledge is experience.
- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
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