Einstein Quotes
You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
