Albert Einstein Quotes about Science - Page 2

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

Albert Einstein

Character, Fate, Science

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Albert Einstein

Truth, Lying, Science

Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Albert Einstein

Believe, Science, Theory

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 element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

God, Believe, Science

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Albert Einstein

Time, Science, Thinking

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Albert Einstein

Science, Intelligent, Interesting

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Albert Einstein

Mean, Science, Together

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

Albert Einstein

Science, Technology, Men

"From Companion's Lost Diary, A Portrait of Einstein in Old Age" by Dennis Overbye, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2004.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Albert Einstein

Science, Discovery, Taught Us

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein

Art, Freedom, Science

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein

Science, Doubt, Want

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Albert Einstein

Science, Empty, Schemes

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.429, Princeton University Press

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Science, Religion

Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

Albert Einstein

Fall, Science, Simple

The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

Albert Einstein

Science, Hands, Achievement

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

Albert Einstein

Writing, Knowledge, Science

"Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, 1983.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Albert Einstein

Memorable, Science, Joy

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Albert Einstein

Science, Theory

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Albert Einstein

Religious, Science, Thinking

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

Real, Creativity, Science

Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Albert Einstein

Science, Discovery, Path

The Sunday Times 18 July 1976

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

Albert Einstein

Creativity, Independent, Science

Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein

Truth, Science, Understanding

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

Albert Einstein

Science, Discovery, Joy

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.382, Princeton University Press