Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for developing the theory of relativity.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

- Out of My Later Years

• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

- Out of My Later Years

• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

- Out of My Later Years

• God does not play dice with the universe.

- saying

• Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.

(God is subtle, but he is not malicious.)
- inscription in Fine Hall, Princeton University.

• Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

- Evolution of Physics

• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as s rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- The Evolution of Physics

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- On Science

• I don't believe in mathematics.

- quoted in Carl Seelig, Albert Einstein

• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

- What I Believe

• Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

- quoted in The Reader's Digest, November 1973

• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- quoted in The Reader's Digest, October 1977

Mabel Dodge