Albert Einstein Quotes About Belief

• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Math, Science

• We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Business, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.589, Pickle Partners Publishing

• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

• That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Secret, Belief

• I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Atheism, Belief

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

• I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Superstitions, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Attitude, Believe

• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Intelligence, Lasts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.41, Broadway Books

• A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Men, Emotional

• Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Independent, World

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.32, Open Road Media

• The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Independent, Science

  "Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality" by Albert Einstein, 1931.

• You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified... It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Believe, Single Mom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.68, Princeton University Press

• God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Belief, Crap, Universe

• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Thinking, Knowing

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

• Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

• It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, World, Violence

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.257, Princeton University Press

• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Mean, Views

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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