Albert Einstein Quotes

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

The Devil craps on the big pile

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

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.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

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

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

I see my life in terms of music.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts.

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

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.