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Einstein's Quotes about Science |
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavours.
- Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
- Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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