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Science Quotes by Albert Einstein
- It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in…
- The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the…
- It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
- It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this…
- If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
- A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination…
- Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
- Science is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
- A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be…
- How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and…
- Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit…
- A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
- I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving…
- In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
- You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
- Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work…
- I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that…
- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To…
- I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple
- I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
- The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.
- I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
- If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
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