Einstein Quotes

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

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

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.