Albert Einstein Different Quotations

It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.