Albert Einstein Quotes

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

The genius is in making the complex simple.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Every age has its beautiful moments.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Fantasie is belangrijker dan kennis, want kennis is begrensd.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.