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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
- I have just got a new theory of eternity.
- One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with…
- There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling…
- One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is…
- It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven…
- Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,…
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some…
- Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Never memorize something that you can look up.
- I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
- If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping…
- Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- The human spirit must prevail over technology.
- To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from…
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing…
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
- There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
- If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world.…
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