Einstein Quotes
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The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell to investigate life at the molecular level is a loud, clear, piercing cry of ‘design!’ The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.
michael behe— p. 232-233
“Academics tend to think they are each the next Einstein whose ‘creativity’ will finally be uncovered a hundred years from now. That's when society should deliver their project funding.”
stephen bush— Bush, Stephen F., Keynote Speech, First IEEE International Conference on Communications 2012 Workshop on Telecommunications: From Research to Standards July 18, 2012
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
george gamow— George Gamow, in his autobiography My World Line: An Informal Autobiography (1970), p. 44. Here the "cosmological term" refers to the cosmological constant in the equations of general relativity, whose value Einstein initially picked to ensure that his model of the universe would neither expand nor contract; if he hadn't done this he might have theoretically predicted the universal expansion that was first observed by Edwin Hubble.
God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See Einstein 301:32.
— 1975 In Nature, vol.257.
We completely ignore the human value of the information. A selection of 100 letters is given a certain information value, and we do not investigate whether it makes sense in English, and, if so, whether the meaning of the sentence is of any practical importance. According to our definition, a set of 100 letters selected at random (according to the rules of Table 1.1), a sentence of 100 letters from a newspaper, a piece of Shakespeare or a theorem of Einstein are given exactly the same informational value.
léon brillouin— Léon Brillouin (1962). Science and Information Theory, second edition. Academic Press, New York. p. 9. ISBN 0-48643-918-6.
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity […] because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
fred brooks— Page 184 (No Silver Bullet (1986))
To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
deepak chopra— "Intelligent Design Without the Bible" in The Huffington Post (23 August 2005)
Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
hans frank— To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.
Gerald Kaufman— Kaufman (April 2002) Speech to the House of Commons as cited in: Stuart Littlewood (14 january 2009). "Could the Rising Anger of British MPs Shake America’s Complacency?". Middle East Online. Retrieved on 18 january 2009.
— This speech related to Israel's controversial military operation codenamed Defensive Wall
Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.
george noory— May 2, 2005
It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho.Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.
— "In continuation of Pope on Newton" from Poems (1926); Squire is here extending upon the famous statement of Alexander Pope:
Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.
d. t. suzuki— Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite. The Abbey of Gethsemani, New Directions, p. 59. (1968)
Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
bill clinton— Address to the International Trade Organization, as quoted in Helenic Resources Net (5 January 2000)
Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory it almost hates you yourself:;! How am I to provide for my students:;? What am I to answer to the philosophers:;?
paul ehrenfest— about the theory of general relativity, in a letter dated November 24, 1919, to Albert Einstein.
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!
richard feynman— recalled by Carver Mead in Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism (2002), p. xix
To remove these one had to account for an “observer” (that is at least for one subject): (i) Observations are not absolute but relative to an observer’s point of view (i.e., his coordinate system: Einstein ); (ii) Observations affect the observed so as to obliterate the observer’s hope for prediction (i.e., his uncertainty is absolute: Heisenberg ). After this, we are now in the possession of the truism that a description (of the universe) implies one who describes it (observes it).
heinz von foerster— p.258 (Notes on an epistemology for living things, 1981)
According to the most influential twentieth-century philosopher of science, Karl Popper, a theory is scientific only in so far as it is falsifiable, and should be given up as soon as it has been falsified. By this standard, the theories of Darwin and Einstein should never have been accepted.
john n. gray— The Human: Science's Irrational Origins (p. 22)
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization , to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. It happens to be my view, but it doesn't challenge any of the findings of Darwin or Huxley or Einstein or Hawking .
christopher hitchens— Brean, Joseph (18 November 2006), "A day in the intellectual glare of Hitchens: Contrarian opines on religion to his crowd of followers", National Post
Did you get the leash on him yet, Einstein?
dean r. koontz— Part 1, Chapter 7.6; Nora's query during Travis's futile struggle to leash human-smart dog Einstein
Could it be, nevertheless, that Einstein 's theory is wrong? Might it be necessary to modify it to find a new theory of gravity that can explain both the stronger gravity and the apparent antigravity being observed today rather than simply throwing in invisible things to make the standard model work?
john moffat— Introduction, A New Gravity Theory, p. xi
Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century.
john moffat— Chapter 2, Einstein, p. 25
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
Malcolm Muggeridge— Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Green Stick (1972)
Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature .
john archibald wheeler— "Albert Einstein in Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 51, published by the National Academy of Sciences
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
— Fred Brooks, essay "No Silver Bullet", 1987
Despite the immense diversity of creation, we all accept that there exists in nature a profound underlying unity. The search for this unity provides the motivation for the lives of many different men some who, like Einstein , search for it in general natural laws and others who, like Teilhard de Chardin, would trace cosmic evolution to a divine origin.
— René Dubos, Science and Man's Nature (1965).
I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.
— Studs Terkel, as quoted by Oliver Burkeman, "Voice of America", The Guardian, 1 March 2002.
As morning branded the sea, darkness fell away at the far side of the beach. I turned to follow it.
samuel r. delany— The Einstein Intersection (1967), Section 13 (closing words)
Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego provided one refrains from going into too much detail.
— John McCarthy, in The Sayings of John McCarthy
Einstein is our ace in the hole. We can't afford to lose him. Auf Wiedersehen!
— Who: General Carville
— Note: General Carville congratulates the Allied Commander(the player) on the transmission as he packs his belonging. He gives his final regards to the Commander as he walks towards and pulls open his door. Still facing the screen, he is unaware of the explosive-clad assassinator standing at his doorway. The Crazy Ivan opens his cloak just as the General finishes his line, then the transmissions loses.
