Albert Einstein Quotes

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

One picture is worth a thousand words

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery