Quotes from Albert Einstein

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

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 capable of it.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

I don't believe in mathematics.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

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

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.