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Philosopher Of Science Inspirational Quotes (2161)

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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.
Albert Einstein
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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
Albert Einstein
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We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.
Albert Einstein
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Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
Albert Einstein
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You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
Albert Einstein
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
Albert Einstein
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Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.
Albert Einstein
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My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature.
Albert Einstein
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The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
Albert Einstein
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From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.
Albert Einstein
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
Albert Einstein
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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us
Albert Einstein
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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
Albert Einstein
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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 science for the English!
Albert Einstein
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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
Albert Einstein
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
Albert Einstein
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The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
Albert Einstein
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Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind
Albert Einstein
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Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
Albert Einstein
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
Albert Einstein
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No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
Albert Einstein
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
Albert Einstein
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Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.
Albert Einstein
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