Albert Einstein Quotes

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

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.

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Not all that counts, can be counted

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

Information is not knowledge.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Peace comes through understanding

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.