Albert Einstein Quotes

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Out of the clutter find Simplicity

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

No scientist thinks in formulae.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

Nothing happens til something moves.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

Science can only state what is, not what should be.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.