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Albert Einstein Quotes about Science

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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Albert Einstein
Science, Thinking, Trying

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Nature, Science

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 solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Albert Einstein
Science, Discovery, Intuition

If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities.

Albert Einstein
Science, Reality, Imagination
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.17, Open Road Media

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?

Albert Einstein
Independent, Science, Reality
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

Albert Einstein
God, Mean, Science
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein
Science, Reality, Long
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Albert Einstein
Knowledge, Science, Men

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

Albert Einstein
Science, Space, Matter

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

Albert Einstein
Science, Discovery, Two
Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Future, Science
Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Albert Einstein
Science, Religion, Physics

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

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 whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Science, Different
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.17, Open Road Media

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Science, Trying

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Albert Einstein
Math, Science, Statistics
"Profile: Physicist John A. Wheeler, Questioning the 'It from Bit'" by John Horgan, Scientific American, pp. 36-37, June 1991.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein
Science, Mind, Investing
Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Albert Einstein
Science, Reality, Thinking
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

Albert Einstein
Science, Matter, Annihilation

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Science, Made
Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein
Education, Science, Climbing

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

Albert Einstein
Spiritual, Science, Logical Ideas

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein
Science, Atoms, Prejudice

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Albert Einstein
Science, Theory, Practicals

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

Albert Einstein
Powerful, Educational, Science

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