Einstein Quotes

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

God Almighty does not throw dice.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

Out of complexity, find simplicity!

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.