Albert Einstein Quotes About Math
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
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I don't believe in mathematics.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.
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But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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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.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs
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What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
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I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
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The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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