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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Moral Decay (1937)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Scientific thought is a development of pre-scientific thought.
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
Physics and Reality (1936)
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking.
The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God.
Science and Religion (1941)
The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.
The World As I See It (1949)
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
Principles of Research (1918)
A dictatorship means muzzles all round and consequently stultification. Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
One thing I have learned in a long life: all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
If the idea of physical reality had ceased to be purely atomic, it still remained for the time being purely mechanistic; people still tried to explain all events as the motion of inert masses; indeed no other way of looking at things seemed conceivable. Then came the great change, which will be associated for all time with the names of Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, and Hertz.
The aim of science is, on the one hand, a comprehension, as complete as possible, of the connection between the sense experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the accomplishment of this aim by the use of a minimum of primary concepts and relations. (Seeking, as far as possible, logical unity in the world picture, i.e. paucity in logical elements.)
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
Viereck interview (1929)
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
Attributed
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)