Albert Einstein Quotes About Mathematics

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Law, Physics

  "Albert Einstein, 14 March, 1879-18 April 1955: A guide for the perplexed". Book by Albert Einstein, 1979.

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Math, Science

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Girl, Education

• Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Noses, Wells

• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, God, Math

  "Quest: An Autobiography". Book by Leopold Infeld (p. 279), 1980.

• I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Math, Science

• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Computer, Theory

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

• There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Passion, People

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is
  that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all
  other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being
  overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Special, Facts

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

• Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Lines

• How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

  Albert Einstein

  Independent, Science, Reality

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.4, Open Road Media

• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Sweet, Math, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.8, Open Road Media

• But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Math, Reality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.21, Open Road Media

• But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Reason, Natural

• I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

• The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Eye, Math

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Science, Logical Ideas

• This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Grey Matter, Done

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