Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Thirth World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Strange is our Situation Here Upon Earth.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Emc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by Lc2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig 1905

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

You can't solve a problem on the same level you created it.

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.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it

There's a Genius in all of us.

We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.

Information is not knowledge.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.

Knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world

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.

I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.