Albert Einstein Quotes
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I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.
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The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.
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About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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Wait a minute! I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.
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There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.
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It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
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Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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I now see the necessity of a beginning.
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.