Albert Einstein Quotes on Nature
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist whose work revolutionized the scientific understanding of space, time, energy, and matter. This page collects quotes attributed to Albert Einstein on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. -
Attributed to Albert Einstein:
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
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“Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.”
1940s | "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946). -
“I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment.”
1920s | How I Created the Theory of Relativity , speech at Kyoto University, Japan, December 14, 1922, as cited in Physics Today , August, 1982.