Einstein Quotes

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Go out as far as you can go and start from there

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

Intelligence and genius

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

We must learn to see the world anew.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.