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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Letter to a California student E. Holzapfel, March 1951

Was born on: 14.03.1879
About Author: Jewish, German-born physicist

Germany and uranium

I understand that Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the Czechoslovakian mines which she has taken over. That she should have taken such early action might perhaps be understood on the ground that the son of the German Under-Secretary of State, von Weizsäcker, is attached to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Berlin where some of the American work on uranium is now being repeated.

Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 2nd, 1939

God and mathematical difficulties

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

Quoted in L. Infeld Quest, 1942

Mathematics and human reason

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? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

Sidelights on Relativity (1922)

The truth of a theory

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

Quoted in H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared (Boston 1972)

Theory of relativity

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Quoted in P. A. Schilpp, Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist (Evanston 1949)

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