Albert Einstein Quotes

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.