Einstein Quotes

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone best both for the body and the mind.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

If you are out to describe the truth leave elegance to the tailor.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I want to know all Gods thoughts all the rest are just details.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.

If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…

The world belongs to the people who are curious.

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.