Quote#Truth
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the…
Quote byAlbert Einstein · 1879–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: from On the Method of Theoretical Physics, p. 183. The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933). Quoted in Einstein's Philosophy of Science.
English (original)
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.
— Albert Einstein
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