Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er icht. The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as laws of nature

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.... We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i. e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco

This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism. How intensely I despise them.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others it is the only means