Albert Einstein Quotes About Simplicity

• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple
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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

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

• God always takes the simplest way.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Believe, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

• I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

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

• People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Work

• I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

• 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.

• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Yield, Simplicity

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Numbers

  1970 Quoted in Life Magazine, 9 Jan.

• The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Opportunity, Simplicity, Leader

• Out of complexity, find simplicity!

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity, Complexity

• Out of the clutter find Simplicity

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity, Clutter

• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity, Different, Kind

• What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Simplicity, Different

  "The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies". Book by Gerald Holton, p. XII, 1978.

• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Differences, Simplicity

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.353, Running Press

• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Knowledge, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

• Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

  Albert Einstein

  Perfection, Simplicity, Quality

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