Albert Einstein Quotes

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

The only race I know is the human one.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. 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.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

Play is the highest from of research.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Watch the stars, and from them learn.

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

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

Knowledge is limited.

Nothing happens until something moves.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS