"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
More Albert Einstein quotes
"[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
"One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while...
"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
"God always takes the simplest way.