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1 | 1 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes | "Everything should be made simple as possible but no simpler." | Repeated throughout his life, see: Quote Investigator |
2 | 2 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1890s | Un homme heureux est trop content du présent pour trop se soucier de l'avenir. | A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. | From "Mes Projets d'Avenir", a French essay written at age 18 for a school exam (18 September 1896). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein Vol. 1 (1987) Doc. 22. |
3 | 3 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1900s | Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. | Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth. |
4 | 4 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1900s | Lieber Habicht! / Es herrscht ein weihevolles Stillschweigen zwischen uns, so daß es mir fast wie eine sündige Entweihung vorkommt, wenn ich es jetzt durch ein wenig bedeutsames Gepappel unterbreche... / Was machen Sie denn, Sie eingefrorener Walfisch, Sie getrocknetes, eingebüchstes Stück Seele...? | Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...? | Opening of a letter to his friend Conrad Habicht in whi... |
5 | 5 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1900s | E=mc² | The equation originally expressed the equivalence of mass and energy as m = L/c², which easily translates into the far more well-known E = mc² in Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? published in the Annalen der Physik (27 September 1905) : "If a body gives off the energy L in... |
6 | 6 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1900s | The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. | Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig? ("Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?") | Annalen der Physik 18, 639-641 (1905). Quoted in Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics by Max Jammer (1961), p. 177 |
7 | 7 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1900s | We shall, therefore, assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system. | Statement of the equivalence principle in Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics (1907) |
8 | 8 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | By a clock we understand anything characterized by a phenomenon passing periodically through identical phases so that we must assume, by the principle of sufficient reason, that all that happens in a given period is identical with all that happens in an arbitrary period. | "Principe de relativité" Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles (1910) ser. 4. 29 5-28 pp. 125–244, as quoted by Julian Barbour, "The Nature of Time" (Mar 20, 2009) p. 7, arXiv:0903.3489. |
9 | 9 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Die Natur zeigt uns vom Löwen zwar nur den Schwanz. Aber es ist mir unzweifelhaft, dass der Löwe dazugehört, wenn er sich auch wegen seiner ungeheuren Dimensionen dem Blicke nicht unmittelbar offenbaren kann. Wir sehen ihn nur wie eine Laus, die auf ihm sitzt. | Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension. We see him only the way a louse sitting upon him would. | Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in The Curious His... |
10 | 10 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Man begreift schwer beim Erleben dieser "großen Zeit", daß man dieser verrückten, verkommenen Spezies angehört, die sich Willensfreiheit zuschreibt. Wenn es doch irgendwo eine Insel der Wohlwollenden und Besonnenen gäbe! Da wollte ich auch glühender Patriot sein. | In living through this "great epoch," it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot! | Letter to... |
11 | 11 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Es ist bequem mit dem Einstein. Jedes Jahr widerruft er, was er das vorige Jahr geschrieben hat. | It's convenient with that fellow Einstein, every year he retracts what he wrote the year before. | Letter to Paul Ehrenfest, 26 December 1915. Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8, Doc. 173. |
12 | 12 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there not some more valuable work to be done in his specialty? That's what I hear many of my colleagues ask, and I sense it from many more. But I cannot share this sentiment. When I think about the ablest student... | Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (Nachruf auf Ernst Mach), Physikalische Zeitschrift 17 (1916), p. 101 |
13 | 13 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | ...to the question whether or not the motion of the Earth in space can be made perceptible in terrestrial experiments. We have already remarked... that all attempts of this nature led to a negative result. Before the theory of relativity was put forward, it was difficult to become reconciled to this negative result. | Relativity – The Special and General Theory (1916), Part I: The Special Theory of Relativity, Experience and the Special Theory of Relativity |
14 | 14 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Unser ganzer gepriesener Fortschritt der Technik, überhaupt die Civilisation, ist der Axt in der Hand des pathologischen Verbrechers vergleichbar. | Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. | Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit by Alan Lightman (2005), p. 110, and in Albert Einstein: A Biography b... |
15 | 15 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case. | (1917) as quoted by , The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: the Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (1986) |
16 | 16 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Ich habe auch manchen wissenschaftlichen Plan überlegt, während ich Dich im Kinderwagen spazieren schob! | I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram! | Letter to his son Hans Albert Einstein (June 1918) |
17 | 17 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Geh Recht viel spazieren, dass Du Recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist. | Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up. | Letter to his son Eduard Einstein (June 1918) |
18 | 18 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | "The physical world is real." That is supposed to be the fundamental hypothesis. What does "hypothesis" mean here? For me, a hypothesis is a statement, whose truth must be assumed for the moment, but whose meaning must be raised above all ambiguity. The above statement appears to me, however, to be, in itself, meaningl... | Letter to Eduard Study, 25 Sept. 1918, in the Einstein Archive, Hebrew U., Jerusalem; translation in D. Howard, Perspectives on Science 1, 225 (1993). |
19 | 19 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | I lie on the beach like a crocodile and let myself be roasted by the sun. I never see a newspaper and don't give a damn for what is called the world. | Letter to Max Born, 1918, from The Born-Einstein Letters: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times, Macmillan (2005 edition), pg 7. |
20 | 20 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich bewiesen haben. | Dear mother! Today a joyful notice. H. A. Lorentz has telegraphed me that the English expeditions have really proven the deflection of light at the sun. | Postcard to his mother Pauline Einstein (1919) |
21 | 21 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | Noch eine Art Anwendung des Relativitätsprinzips zum Ergötzen des Lesers: Heute werde ich in Deutschland als "deutscher Gelehrter", in England als "Schweizer Jude" bezeichnet; sollte ich aber einst in die Lage kommen, als "bète noire" präsentiert zu werden, dann wäre ich umgekehrt für die Deutschen ein „Schweizer Jude"... | By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of ... |
22 | 22 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s | The most simple picture one can form about the creation of an empirical science is along the lines of an inductive method. Individual facts are selected and grouped together such that their lawful connection becomes clearly apparent. ... The truly great advances in our understanding of nature originated in a manner alm... | "Induction and Deduction in Physics", Berliner Tageblatt, 25 December 1919. |
23 | 23 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s > ''Principles of Research'' (1918) | In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; m... | null |
24 | 24 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s > ''Principles of Research'' (1918) | The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart. | null |
25 | 25 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s > ''Principles of Research'' (1918) | Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scient... | Variant translation: One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception an... |
26 | 26 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s > ''Principles of Research'' (1918) | But what can be the attraction of getting to know such a tiny section of nature thoroughly, while one leaves everything subtler and more complex shyly and timidly alone? Does the product of such a modest effort deserve to be called by the proud name of a theory of the universe? In my belief the name is justified; for t... | null |
27 | 27 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1910s > ''Principles of Research'' (1918) | 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. In this methodological uncertainty, one might suppose tha... | Variant, from Preface to Max Planck's Where is Science Going? (1933): The supreme task of the physicist is the discovery of the most general elementary laws from which the world-picture can be deduced logically. But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, wh... |
28 | 28 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Wie lieb ich diesen edlen Mann Mehr als ich mit Worten sagen kann. Doch fürcht' ich, dass er bleibt allein Mit seinem strahlenden Heiligenschein. | How much do I love that noble manMore than I could tell with wordsI fear though he'll remain aloneWith a holy halo of his own. | Poem by Einstein on Spinoza (1920), as quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer, Princeton UP 1999, p. 43; original German manuscript: "Zu Spinozas Ethik". |
29 | 29 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | We may assume the existence of an aether; only we must give up ascribing a definite state of motion to it, i.e. we must by abstraction take from it the last mechanical characteristic which Lorentz had still left it. ... But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media,... | On the irrelevance of the luminiferous aether hypothesis to physical measurements, in an address at the University of Leiden (5 May 1920) |
30 | 30 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | I am neither a German citizen nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a "Jewish faith." But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen. | Letter to Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, 3 [5] April 1920, as quoted in Alice Calaprice, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010), p. 195; citing Israelitisches Wochenblatt, 42 September 1920, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 7, Doc. 37, and Vol. 9, Doc 368. |
31 | 31 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | In Lenin I honor a man, who in total sacrifice of his own person has committed his entire energy to realizing social justice. I do not find his methods advisable. One thing is certain, however: men like him are the guardians and renewers [Erneuerer] of mankind's conscience. | Quoted in Einstein on Politics, Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781400848287. |
32 | 32 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Es ist das schönste Los einer physikalischen Theorie, wenn sie selbst zur Aufstellung einer umfassenden Theorie den Weg weist, in welcher sie als Grenzfall weiterlebt. | No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory, than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case. | Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (1920) Tr. Robert W. Lawson, Relativity: The Special and Ge... |
33 | 33 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. | Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. | Remark made during Einstein's first visit to Princeton University (April 1921) as quoted in Einstein (1973) by R. W. Clark, Ch. 14. "God is slick, but he ain't mean" is a variant translation of this (1946) Unsourced variant: "God is subtle but he is not malicious." | When ... |
34 | 34 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | When a man after long years of searching chances on a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding. In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up w... | From the story "The Progress of Science" in The Scientific Monthly edited by J. McKeen Cattell (June 1921), Vol. XII, No. 6. The story says that the comments were made at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at the National Museum in Washington on April 25, 26, and 27. Einstein's comments appear on p.... |
35 | 35 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. | In response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921); Einstein: His Life and Times (1947) Philipp Frank, p. 185; Einstein, A Life (1996) by Denis Brian, p. 129; "Einstein Due Today" (February 2005) edited by József Illy, Manuscript 25-32 of the Einstein Paper Projec... |
36 | 36 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | The only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy. I am convinced that the philosophers have had a harmful effect upon the progress of scientific thinking in removing certain fundamental concepts from the do... | From the lecture "Space and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics" delivered at Princeton University in May 1921, printed in The Meaning of Relativity (Princeton University Press, 1923), the quote appearing on pp. 2-3. |
37 | 37 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Insofern sich die Sätze der Mathematik auf die Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die Wirklichkeit. | In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality. | Geometrie and Erfahrung (1921) pp. 3-4 link.springer.com as cited by Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge (2014) Tr. Andreas Pickel, Ed. T... |
38 | 38 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. | Einstein in his Kyoto address (14 December 1922), talking about the events of "probably the 2nd or 3rd weeks" of October 1907, quoted in Why Did Einstein Put So Much Emphasis on the Equivalence Principle? by Dr. Robert J. Heaston in Equivalence Principle – April 2008 (15th NPA Conference) who cites A. Einstein. "How I ... |
39 | 39 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment. | How I Created the Theory of Relativity, speech at Kyoto University, Japan, December 14, 1922, as cited in Physics Today, August, 1982. |
40 | 40 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul. | Comment made after a six-week trip to Japan in November-December 1922, published in Kaizo 5, no. 1 (January 1923), 339. Einstein Archive 36-477.1. Appears in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 269 |
41 | 41 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Die Quantenmechanik ist sehr achtung-gebietend. Aber eine innere Stimme sagt mir, daß das doch nicht der wahre Jakob ist. Die Theorie liefert viel, aber dem Geheimnis des Alten bringt sie uns kaum näher. Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der nicht würfelt. | Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. | Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926); The Born-Einstein Lette... |
42 | 42 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. | Objecting to the placing of observables at the heart of the new quantum mechanics, during Heisenberg's 1926 lecture at Berlin; related by Heisenberg, quoted in Unification of Fundamental Forces (1990) by Abdus Salam |
43 | 43 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious... | p. 157 London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson | Response to atheist Alfred Kerr in the winter of 1927, who after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party in the home of the publisher Samuel Fischer, had queried him "I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious" as quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971... |
44 | 44 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Ich glaube an Spinoza's Gott, der sich in der gesetzlichen Harmonie des Seienden offenbart, nicht an einen Gott, der sich mit Schicksalen und Handlungen der Menschen abgibt. | I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. | 24 April 1929 in response to the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words." Einstein r... |
45 | 45 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. | Said to Samuel J Woolf, Berlin, Summer 1929. Cited with additional notes in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice and Freeman Dyson, Princeton UP (2010) p 230 |
46 | 46 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | I should unconditionally refuse every direct or indirect war service and try to induce my friends to adopt the same attitude, irrespective of the general opinion of the causes of war. | When asked what his attitude would be in the event of another war, at a meeting of the Council of War Resisters in Zurich. | As quoted in Einstein Would Refuse Any War Services No Matter What the Cause // Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin, September 8, 1929 |
47 | 47 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s | Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means. | When asked the question, "Why a 'Jewish' University?" when Einstein was assisting Chaim Weizmann in fundraising for The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | As quoted in [Albert Einstein, Letter "Einstein in Singapore." Manchester Guardian, October 12, 1929] |
48 | 48 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > ''Sidelights on Relativity'' (1922) | 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? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things? | null |
49 | 49 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > ''Sidelights on Relativity'' (1922) | One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts. | null |
50 | 50 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. Relativity, as I see it, merely denotes that certain physical and mechanical facts, which have been regarded as positive and permanent, are relative with regard to certain other facts in the sphere of phy... | null |
51 | 51 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically ... I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which w... | null |
52 | 52 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. | Quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2010), p. 230 |
53 | 53 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. | null |
54 | 54 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | If I was 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. ... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin. | null |
55 | 55 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life. | null |
56 | 56 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | Our time is Gothic in its spirit. Unlike the Renaissance, it is not dominated by a few outstanding personalities. The twentieth century has established the democracy of the intellect. In the republic of art and science, there are many men who take an equally important part in the intellectual movements of our age. It i... | null |
57 | 57 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | In America, more than anywhere else, the individual is lost in the achievements of the many. America is beginning to be the world leader in a scientific investigation. American scholarship is both patient and inspiring. The Americans show an unselfish devotion to science, which is the very opposite of the conventional ... | null |
58 | 58 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism. | null |
59 | 59 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect, I am not a Jew. | Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, p. 387 |
60 | 60 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I believe with Schopenhauer: We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must. Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being. I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible ... | null |
61 | 61 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control—primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions. | null |
62 | 62 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | Whereas materialistic historians and philosophers neglect psychic realities, Freud is inclined to overstress their importance. I am not a psychologist, but it seems to me fairly evident that physiological factors, especially our endocrines, control our destiny ... I am not able to venture a judgment on so important a p... | null |
63 | 63 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | The only progress I can see is progress in the organization. The ordinary human being does not live long enough to draw any substantial benefit from his own experience. And no one, it seems, can benefit by the experiences of others. Being both a father and teacher, I know we can teach our children nothing. We can trans... | null |
64 | 64 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am. When two expeditions of scientists, financed by the Royal Academy, went forth to test my theory of relativity, I was convinced that their conclusions would tally with my hypothesis. I was not surprised when the eclipse ... | null |
65 | 65 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. | null |
66 | 66 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. | null |
67 | 67 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. | null |
68 | 68 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. | As reported in Einstein — A Life (1996) by Denis Brian, when asked about a clipping from a magazine article reporting his comments on Christianity as taken down by Viereck, Einstein carefully read the clipping and replied, " That is what I believe." . |
69 | 69 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. | When asked by Viereck if he considered himself to be a German or a Jew. A version with slightly different wording is quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 386 |
70 | 70 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. ... Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew. | null |
71 | 71 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections. | In response to a question about whether religion is the tie holding the Jews together. |
72 | 72 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | But to return to the Jewish question. Other groups and nations cultivate their individual traditions. There is no reason why we should sacrifice ours. Standardization robs life of its spice. To deprive every ethnic group of its special traditions is to convert the world into a huge Ford plant. I believe in standardizin... | null |
73 | 73 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. | null |
74 | 74 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. | null |
75 | 75 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are cov... | Did not appear in Saturday Evening Post story, but in Glimpses of the Great (1930) by G. S. Viereck, on p. 373. There have been disputes on the accuracy of this quotation. | Sometimes misquoted as "I don't think I can call myself a pantheist". | Variant, from Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, p. 386: ... |
76 | 76 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1920s > Viereck interview (1929) | I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things. | Did not appear in the Saturday Evening Post story, but quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, p. 387, in the section discussing Viereck's interview. |
77 | 77 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. | Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p. 367 |
78 | 78 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. | Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty |
79 | 79 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed. | Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty |
80 | 80 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. | Attributed in The Encarta Book of Quotations to an interview on the Belgenland (December 1930), which was the ship on which he arrived in New York that month. According to The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2010), p. 18, the quote also appears as "Aphorism, 1945-1946" in the Einstein Archives 36-570. Ca... |
81 | 81 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence a lot of mankind. | From a letter to Hermann Huth, Vice-President of the German Vegetarian Federation (27 December 1930). Supposedly published in German magazine Vegetarische Warte, which existed from 1882 to 1935. Einstein Archive 46-756. Quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2011), [//books.google.it/books?id=G_iz... |
82 | 82 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Die Diktatur bringt den Maulkorb und dieser die Stumpfheit. Wissenschaft kann nur gedeihen in einer Atmosphäre des Freien Wortes. | A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech. | "Science and Dictatorship," in Dictatorship on Its Trial, by Eminent Leaders of Modern Thought (1930) - later as Dictatorship on Trial (1931), Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889-1965), ed., Hu... |
83 | 83 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Der Glaube an eine vom wahrnehmenden Subjekt unabhängige Außenwelt liegt aller Naturwissenschaft zugrunde. | First sentence of "Maxwells Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Auffassung des Physikalisch-Realen". Manuscript at the Hebrew University Jerusalem alberteinstein.info | The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. | From "Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of... |
84 | 84 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | The scientific organization and comprehensive exposition in accessible form of the Talmud has a twofold importance for us Jews. It is important in the first place that the high cultural values of the Talmud should not be lost to modern minds among the Jewish people nor to science, but should operate further as a living... | From a letter by Albert Einstein to Professor Chaim Tchernowitz (31 December 1930) of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York (Hebrew Union College). Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Jewish Daily Bulletin) |
85 | 85 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of... | Speech to students at the California Institute of Technology, in "Einstein Sees Lack in Applying Science", The New York Times (16 February 1931) |
86 | 86 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | I believe in intuition and inspiration. ... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is... | Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below. |
87 | 87 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality. | Miscellaneous, Cosmic Religion, p. 104 (1931) |
88 | 88 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? | From Cosmic Religion: with Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), Albert Einstein, pub. Covici-Friede. Quoted in The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press; 2nd edition (May 30, 2000); Page 208, |
89 | 89 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work. | Einstein's letter to Nikola Tesla for Tesla's 75th birthday (1931) |
90 | 90 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | What the inventive genius of mankind has bestowed upon us in the last hundred years could have made human life care free and happy if the development of the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with his technical advances. As it is, the hardly bought achievements of the machine age in the hands of our gen... | writing for the 1932 Disarmament Conference, included in The Nation 1865-1990: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990) |
91 | 91 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Without disarmament there can be no lasting peace. On the contrary, the continuation of military armaments in their present extent will with certainty lead to new catastrophies...For the creation of this public opinion in favor of disarmament every person living shares the responsibility, through ever deed and every wo... | writing for the 1932 Disarmament Conference, included in The Nation 1865-1990: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (1990) |
92 | 92 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. | In answer to a question asked by the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY. Quoted in the New York Times (June 20, 1932), p. 17 | Unsourced variant: Only a life in the service of others is worth living. |
93 | 93 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. | "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933); also published in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1934), pp. 163-169., p. 165. [thanks to Dr. Techie @ www.wordorigins.org and JSTOR] The Philosophy of Science print version is available online here. |
94 | 94 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Our experience hitherto justifies us in trusting that nature is the realization of the simplest that is mathematically conceivable. I am convinced that purely mathematical construction enables us to find those concepts and those lawlike connections between them that provide the key to the understanding of natural pheno... | from On the Method of Theoretical Physics, p. 183. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933). Quoted in Einstein's Philosophy of Science | Alternate wording in version of On the Method of Theoretical Physics published in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1934), p. 167: "Our experience up... |
95 | 95 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | There are certain occupations, even in modern society, which entail living in isolation and do not require great physical or intellectual effort. Such occupations as the service of lighthouses and lightships come to mind. Would it not be possible to place young people who wish to think about scientific problems, especi... | From a speech "Science and Civilization" in the Royal Albert Hall, London (October 3, 1933). Published as "Europe’s Danger—Europe’s Hope" (1934) |
96 | 96 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus. | Response to being shown a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" column with the headline "Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics" (1935). Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 16 |
97 | 97 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking. | "Physics and Reality" (as translated by Jean Piccard) in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936), at p. 349 |
98 | 98 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why then should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing? Such might indeed be the right thing to do at a time when the physicist believes he has at his disposa... | "Physics and Reality" in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936), Pages 349-382 |
99 | 99 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | 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). The quotation marks may just indicate that he wants to present this as a new aphorism, but it could possibly indicate that he is paraphrasing or quoting someone else — perhaps Immanuel Kant, since in the next sentence he say... |
100 | 100 | Albert Einstein | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein | 2026-04-24 15:31:11+00:00 | Quotes > 1930s | Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. | Letter to Phyllis Wright (January 24, 1936), published in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children (Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 129 |
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