Albert Einstein Quotes

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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

Imagination rules the earth

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

Experience alone can decide on truth.

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.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

The heart says yes, but the mind says no.

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 splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Not all that counts, can be counted

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

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.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

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

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

It's not that I'm so smart.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I don't believe in mathematics.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

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.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.