Einstein Quotes

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

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.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

We are here for the sake of others

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

How do I work? I grope.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler