Albert Einstein’s Quotes about Science
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
A man’s ethical behavior 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.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.