Albert Einstein Quotes About Physics
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
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[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
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It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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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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[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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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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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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