Quote

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Theory
Whether
Upon
Use
Decides
Thing
Observed
Observe
Innovation
Depends

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
Albert Einstein
Image
I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.
Albert Einstein
Image
The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.
Albert Einstein
Image
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)
Albert Einstein
Image
People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Image
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
Image
What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
Albert Einstein
Image
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
Image
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
Albert Einstein
Image
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Albert Einstein
Image
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
Albert Einstein
Image
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Image
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Image
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.
Albert Einstein
Image
Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
Albert Einstein
Image
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water
Albert Einstein
Image
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
Albert Einstein
Image
My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
Albert Einstein
Image
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein
Image
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein