Einstein Quotes

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

Nothing happens til something moves.

Creativity is Inspiration having fun

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

Science can only state what is, not what should be.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

The genius is in making the complex simple.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

If we think of the field as being removed, there is no 'space' which remains, since space does not have an independent existence.

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Every age has its beautiful moments.