Albert Einstein - Quotes

Albert Einstein, 1921
Born	14 March 1879(1879-03-14) Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died	18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Residence	Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Citizenship	Württemberg/Germany (1879–96) Stateless (1896–1901) Switzerland (1901–55) Austria (1911–12) Germany (1914–33) United States (1940–55)[1]
Ethnicity	Jewish
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Swiss Patent Office (Bern) University of Zurich Charles University in Prague ETH Zurich Prussian Academy of Sciences Kaiser Wilhelm Institute University of Leiden Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	ETH Zurich University of Zurich
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Kleiner
Other academic advisors	Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Notable students	Ernst G. Straus Nathan Rosen Leo Szilard Raziuddin Siddiqui[2]
Known for	General relativity Special relativity Photoelectric effect Brownian motion Mass-energy equivalence Einstein field equations Unified Field Theory Bose–Einstein statistics
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Copley Medal (1925) Max Planck Medal (1929) Time Person of the Century
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• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. - Albert Einstein
• A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. - Albert Einstein
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
• A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? - Albert Einstein
• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? - Albert Einstein
• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. - Albert Einstein
• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. - Albert Einstein
• All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. - Albert Einstein
• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. - Albert Einstein
• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein
• Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein
• Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. - Albert Einstein
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
• As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.\ - Albert Einstein
• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein
• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. - Albert Einstein
• Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein
• Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
• Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. - Albert Einstein
• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein
• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein
• Force always attracts men of low morality. - Albert Einstein
• God always takes the simplest way. - Albert Einstein
• God does not play dice. - Albert Einstein
• God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. - Albert Einstein
• Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
• He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. - Albert Einstein
• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein
• Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Albert Einstein
• I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. - Albert Einstein
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. - Albert Einstein
• I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. - Albert Einstein
• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein
• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. - Albert Einstein
• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. - Albert Einstein
• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. - Albert Einstein
• I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. - Albert Einstein
• I have just got a new theory of eternity. - Albert Einstein
• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein
• I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
• I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. - Albert Einstein
• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein
• I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. - Albert Einstein
• I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. - Albert Einstein
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein
• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein
• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? - Albert Einstein
• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein
• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. - Albert Einstein
• In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. - Albert Einstein
• Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein
• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein
• Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? - Albert Einstein
• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. - Albert Einstein
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. - Albert Einstein
• It is only to the individual that a soul is given. - Albert Einstein
• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. - Albert Einstein
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
• It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein
• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. - Albert Einstein
• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein
• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. - Albert Einstein
• Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. - Albert Einstein
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
• Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. - Albert Einstein
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein
• Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein
• Love is a better teacher than duty. - Albert Einstein
• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. - Albert Einstein
• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. - Albert Einstein
• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. - Albert Einstein
• Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. - Albert Einstein
• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein
• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. - Albert Einstein
• Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein
• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Albert Einstein
• No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. - Albert Einstein
• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
• Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. - Albert Einstein
• Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. - Albert Einstein
• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. - Albert Einstein
• One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. - Albert Einstein
• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. - Albert Einstein
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. - Albert Einstein
• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. - Albert Einstein
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
• Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein
• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein
• People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. - Albert Einstein
• Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. - Albert Einstein
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
• Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. - Albert Einstein
• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. - Albert Einstein
• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein
• Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein
• That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. - Albert Einstein
• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein
• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. - Albert Einstein
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. - Albert Einstein
• The environment is everything that isn't me. - Albert Einstein
• The faster you go, the shorter you are. - Albert Einstein
• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. - Albert Einstein
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein
• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
• The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. - Albert Einstein
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein
• The man of science is a poor philosopher. - Albert Einstein
• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. - Albert Einstein
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. - Albert Einstein
• The only real valuable thing is intuition. - Albert Einstein
• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Albert Einstein
• The only source of knowledge is experience. - Albert Einstein
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein
• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. - Albert Einstein
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein
• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein
• The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. - Albert Einstein
• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein
• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. - Albert Einstein
• The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. - Albert Einstein
• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein
• There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. - Albert Einstein
• There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. - Albert Einstein
• There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. - Albert Einstein
• Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. - Albert Einstein
• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. - Albert Einstein
• To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. - Albert Einstein
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• Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. - Albert Einstein
• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. - Albert Einstein
• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. - Albert Einstein
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
• We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. - Albert Einstein
• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
• We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
• We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein
• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein
• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. - Albert Einstein
• When the solution is simple, God is answering. - Albert Einstein
• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein
• Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. - Albert Einstein
• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. - Albert Einstein
• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. - Albert Einstein
• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert Einstein
• You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. - Albert Einstein

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