Albert Einstein Quotes (575 Quotes)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

To a student Dear Miss I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants.... Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them.... There is too much education altogether.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

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.

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms

The distinctions separating the social classes are false in the last analysis they rest on force.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear

a purely algebraic physics.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minuteand it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

I thought marketing this product to kids ages four and older is outrageous,

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

One thing I have learned in a long life that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have