It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
Albert EinsteinI have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.
Albert EinsteinAs for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Albert EinsteinThe longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
Albert Einstein