Albert Einstein Judging Quotations

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.