Albert Einstein Quotes
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Albert Einstein (1879 1955) is widely considered one of the greatest physicists of all time. He is best known for the theory of relativity.
Here are some famous quotes by Albert Einstein:
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Einstein Quotes
Albert Einstein Quotes on God
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.
I want to know Gods thoughts…. all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein Quote about Gods Thoughts
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein Quotes about Religion
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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.
Albert Einstein Quotes on Life
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day’s work like a happy child at play.
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein Quotes on Insanity
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein Quotes about Success
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Albert Einstein Quotes on Mathematics
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein Quotes about Imagination
Imagination is more important than knowledge…
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 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.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Never regard study as a 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.
I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
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.
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
It is the source of all art and science.
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. 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.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Do you remember how electrical currents and ‘unseen waves’ were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
A man´s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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.
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.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
