Albert Einstein Quotations | Page 2

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

On the big Bang theory: For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Only a life lived for others is worth living

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age

If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.

LOVE: He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received

So long as there are men there will be wars. So long as there are men there will be wars.

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means