Albert Einstein Quotes

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

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

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

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

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

If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

A mathematical equation stands forever.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

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

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

People will not disarm step by step; they will disarm at one blow or not at all.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.