One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.


Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404

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Albert Einstein Quotes

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious ...

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious ...

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious ...

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious ...