Albert Einstein Quotes

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

Time is what the clock says.

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

Imagination encircles the world.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

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.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

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

Time is an illusion.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Imagination rules the earth

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 capable of it.

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

The heart says yes, but the mind says no.

God is clever, but not dishonest.