Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein · Smartyfair

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein1879–1955 · scientist · 1900s Germany & USAAlbert Einstein was a physicist who changed how space, time, and gravity are understood, publishing his groundbreaking theory of relativity in the early 1900s while working as an unknown patent clerk in Switzerland.10 quotes

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Something is true if it keeps working when you test it.

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What turned up: From Einstein's own essay collection Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 16, 'The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics.'
Work: Out of My Later Years
Occasion: 1950 · Princeton · Essay on science and ethics
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced, Out of My Later Years (1950) section

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