Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
Albert EinsteinDuring the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert EinsteinA hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
Albert EinsteinThe best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.
Albert Einstein