Physicist Quotes: Wisdom from the World of Physics (Page 4)

"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean"

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The only source of knowledge is experience"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

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