Einstein Quotes

I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

I live my daydreams in music.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

From discord, find Harmony.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.