Quotations of Albert Einstein

 

Albert Einstein

(14/3/1879 – 18/4/1955)

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). He is best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory. 

Quotations of Albert Einstein

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.  
• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  
• Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
• I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
• Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. 
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.  
• A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? 
• To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
• We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
• God always takes the simplest way.
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. 
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. 
• Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 
• I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.       
• Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
• The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.
• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
• 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.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
• Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
• 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 any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. 
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. 
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
• Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. 
• Force always attracts men of low morality.  
• The environment is everything that isn't me.
• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.  
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. 
• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.  
• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.  
• Information is not knowledge.
• t was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.  
• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. 
• God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.  
• I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. 
• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.  
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.  
• The only source of knowledge is experience. 
• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.  
• As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
• 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.  
• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 
• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.  
• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. 
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.  
• Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. 
• Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.  
• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! 
• Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.  
• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. 
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  
• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. 
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.  
• One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. 
• Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.  
• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. 
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  
• Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. 
• Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.  
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.  
• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
• Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. 
• 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 will be killed.  
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. 
• He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.  
• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 
• The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
• When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.
• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
•  If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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