Albert EinsteinGerman-born theoretical physicist |
The teacher`s highest art is to awaken his pupil to the pleasure of creation and recognition.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Education is that which remains if one has forgotten everything else he learned in school.
What I’m really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.