Albert Einstein Quotes

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.. Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe..

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.. Albert Einstein

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.. Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.. Albert

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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

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

Love is a better master than duty.. Albert Einstein

Love is a better master than duty.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Never memorize something that you can look up.. Albert Einstein

Never memorize something that you can look up.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

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

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

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.. Albert Einstein

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty,

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.. Albert Einstein

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.. Albert Einstein

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.. Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.. Albert Einstein

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]

Dancers are the athletes of God.. Albert Einstein

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.. Albert Einstein

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.. Albert Einstein

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

You never fail until you stop trying.. Albert Einstein

You never fail until you stop trying.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.. Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.. Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.. Albert Einstein

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.. Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.. Albert Einstein

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either..

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.
~ Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.. Albert

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!. Albert

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.. Albert Einstein

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.. Albert Einstein

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.
So I stopped wearing socks.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

Information is not knowledge.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Play is the highest form of research.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

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

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The world is a dangerous place,not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look and do nothing

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

There can be no positive
result through negative
attitude. Think positive. Live positive.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people-first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

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.

God does not play dice with the universe.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Oh juventud nunca dejes de pensar...

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

We can't solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.

Time is an illusion.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
~(Albert Einstein)

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

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

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

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

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

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.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I see my life in terms of music.

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

Am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only thing that can lead us to find ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

If you cant' explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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