Einstein Quotes

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

Imagination encircles the world.

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Time is an illusion.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

Imagination rules the earth

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

Experience alone can decide on truth.