Albert Einstein Quotes

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

I see my life in terms of music.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

The important things are always simple.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Where there is love, there is no imposition.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.