Albert Einstein Quotes

Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

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

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

Imagination rules the earth

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

Time does not exist - we invented it

More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.