Quotes from Albert Einstein
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
- Albert Einstein
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
- Albert Einstein
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
- Albert Einstein
It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.
- Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
The best design is the simplest one that works.
- Albert Einstein
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
- Albert Einstein
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
- Albert Einstein
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
- Albert Einstein
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
- Albert Einstein
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
- Albert Einstein