Albert Einstein Quotes

In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

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

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

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

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

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.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

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