Albert Einstein Quotes

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

I rarely think in words at all.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

Give back to the world at least what you've received.

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library

God does not play dice with the universe.

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

Love is a better master than duty.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.