Albert Einstein Creative Quotations

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions

The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

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.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.