Einstein Quotes

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?

Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Out of the clutter find Simplicity

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

No scientist thinks in formulae.

Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.