Albert Einstein Quotes About Science
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
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How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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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.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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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.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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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 in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
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Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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...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.
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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.
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist