Quotes About Science

Albert Einstein believes in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science

Albert Einstein

Specialization in every sphere of intellectual work is producing an ever widening gulf between the intellectual worker and the non-specialist, which makes it more difficult for the life of the nation to be fertilized and enriched by the achievements of art and science.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it

A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (electron, etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution... To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says Yes to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says Maybe, and in the great majority of cases simply No. If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter Maybe, and if it does not agree it means No. Probably every theory will someday experience its No - most theories, soon after conception.

Lo más incomprensible de universo es que sea comprensible.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Gott würfelt nicht.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Vivisezione. Nessuno scopo è così alto da giustificare metodi così indegni.

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There is no doubt, that the special theory of relativity, if we regard its development in retrospect, was ripe for discovery in 1905.

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe... Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.

in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people

Triste época la nuestra! Es más fácil desintegrar un átomo que un prejuicio.

That fellow Einstein suits his convenience. Every year he retracts what he wrote the year before.

Question: What is a scientific author? Answer: A cross between a mimosa and a porcupine.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

science has explained nothing; ...the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness....