Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)


    Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

    To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

    People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.


    Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord


    The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

    Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

    The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experiment skill.

    We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.

    On the big Bang theory For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

    The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

    It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.


    Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

    All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

    Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

    I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of lifeand the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make theday's work like a happy child at play.



    The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

    One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.

    Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

    Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

    The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

    Long hair minimizes the need for barbers socks can be done without one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years suspenders are superfluous.


    The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

    One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems dis

    The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

    The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....

    It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity

    These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

    Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live


    Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

    The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

    A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.


    An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

    Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

    It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.


    The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

    Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

    Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

    Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

    Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

    It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

    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.


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