Albert Einstein Quotes

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Intelligence and genius

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

We must learn to see the world anew.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

The Devil craps on the big pile