Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

God does not play dice with the universe.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought With sticks and stones

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Time is relevant to where you are.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Common sense invents and constructs no less in its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the [naive] nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time w

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them - these are the best guides for man.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

Newton, forgive me.