
Banquet speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/compton-speech.html for his Nobel Prize, 1927.
1940s, Science and Religion (1941)
Context: It would not be difficult to come to an agreement as to what we understand by science. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at the posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. But when asking myself what religion is I cannot think of the answer so easily. And even after finding an answer which may satisfy me at this particular moment, I still remain convinced that I can never under any circumstances bring together, even to a slight extent, the thoughts of all those who have given this question serious consideration.
Banquet speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/compton-speech.html for his Nobel Prize, 1927.
Source: The Principles of Agriculture, 1844, Section I: The fundamental principles, p. 3.
Max Weber and Value-free Sociology: A Marxist Critique (1975), p. 39.
Source: 1940s and later, Otto Neurath Economic Writings. Selections 1904-1945 (2004), p. 269
“Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 95
Source: 1980s and later, Models of my life, 1991, p. 302.
“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
The Physical Basis of Mind (1877; repr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1891) p. 4
From Lettre à Maurice Solvine, by A. Einstein (Gauthier-Villars: Paris 1956)
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)