Albert Einstein Quotes
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
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.Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.Albert Einstein
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
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.Albert Einstein
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.Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.Albert Einstein
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.Albert Einstein
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert Einstein
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.Albert Einstein
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert Einstein
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever 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.Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.Albert Einstein
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
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.Albert Einstein
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.Albert Einstein
At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice.Albert Einstein
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.Albert Einstein
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.Albert Einstein
Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Albert Einstein
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.Albert Einstein
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.Albert Einstein
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.Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it.Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.Albert Einstein
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.Albert Einstein
