Albert Einstein Quotes

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

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

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.

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

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

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

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

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

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

From discord, find Harmony.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

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.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.