Albert Einstein1879–1955The quotations of
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879–1955
95 quotes, most often on Science, God and War & Peace. Part of the Scientists collection.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Science and Religion (1941)It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
One may say “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
From the article “Physics and Reality” (March 1936), reprinted in Out of My Later Years (1956)- Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Letter to Michele Besso (8 October 1952)Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606- First sentence of “Maxwells Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Auffassung des Physikalisch-Realen”
- “Autobiographical Notes” (1949)
