Albert Einstein Quotes about Science - Page 3

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Albert Einstein

Funny, Stupid, Science

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein

Science, Math, Mind

Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.24, Open Road Media

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Albert Einstein

Nature, Science, Men

Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Albert Einstein

Science, Law, Understanding

Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Albert Einstein

Science, Reality, Awe And Wonder

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Albert Einstein

Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

Albert Einstein

Learning, Science, Discovery

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

Albert Einstein

Science, Data, Understanding

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.188, Open Road Media

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Attitude, Science

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

Albert Einstein

Mean, Independent, Science

"Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" by Albert Einstein, 1931.

...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Albert Einstein

Science, Shoes, Mind

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

Albert Einstein

Future, Winter, Science

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.

Albert Einstein

Science, Differences, Simplicity

Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.353, Running Press

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Albert Einstein

Science, Thinking, Principles

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Teaching, Math, Science

"Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

Albert Einstein

Zero, Science, Molecules

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

Science, Diversity, Enquiry

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.178, Open Road Media

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Art, 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 creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Albert Einstein

Science, Creative, Guessing

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Science

No scientist thinks in formulae.

Albert Einstein

Science, Thinking, Scientist

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Albert Einstein

Science, Numbers, Facts

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Albert Einstein

Life, Hard Work, Science

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Albert Einstein

Humble, Science, Done

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Albert Einstein

Science, Men, Littles

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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