Albert Einstein Quotes

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous. ~ Albert Einstein

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice. Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.
We all know that, so why complain? Was it not always thus and will it not always thus remain? Certainly, and one must take what nature gives as one finds it. But there is also such a thing as a spirit of the times, an attitude of mind characteristic of a particular generation, which is passed on from individual to individual and gives its distinctive mark to a society. Each of us has to his little bit toward transforming this spirit of the times. ~ Albert Einstein

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out. ~ Tom Robbins

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
- Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray; quoted in: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffmann ~ Albert Einstein

To quote Albert Einstein,' said Sherman, "You stink and so do your relatives."
"Einstein never said that," argued Garfield.
"Did too," Insisted Sherman. "It's in his theory of relativity. ~ Jim Kraft

Force always attracts men of low morality. ~ Albert Einstein

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. ~ Albert Einstein

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. ~ Albert Einstein

Black holes are where God divided by zero. ~ Albert Einstein

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. ~ Albert Einstein

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. ~ Albert Einstein

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. ~ Albert Einstein

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals. ~ Albert Einstein

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better. ~ Albert Einstein

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. ~ Albert Einstein

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know. ~ Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber. ~ Albert Einstein

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent. ~ Albert Einstein

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. ~ Albert Einstein

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. ~ Albert Einstein

You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one. ~ Albert Einstein

It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ~ Albert Einstein

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available. ~ Albert Einstein

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression ~ Albert Einstein

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. ~ Albert Einstein

If I were given one hour to save the world, I would spend 50 minutes defining the problem. ~ Albert Einstein

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. ~ Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. ~ Albert Einstein

Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him. ~ Wolfgang Pauli

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again." ~Albert Einstein ~ R.K. Lilley

We must learn to see the world anew. ~ Albert Einstein

Games are the most elevated form of investigation. ~ Albert Einstein

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea ... ~ Brandi L. Bates

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. ~ Albert Einstein

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size ~ Albert Einstein

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings. ~ Albert Einstein

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say. ~ Albert Einstein

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art. ~ Albert Einstein

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity ... out of discord, harmony ... and out of difficulty, opportunity. ~ Albert Einstein

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster. ~ Albert Einstein

All men are ignorant, just in different fields. ~ Albert Einstein

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. ~ Albert Einstein

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling. ~ Albert Einstein

Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving? ~ Albert Einstein

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life. ~ Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein

Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do ... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I. ~ Albert Einstein

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. ~ Albert Einstein

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity. ~ Albert Einstein

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century. ~ Stephen Hawking

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it's 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world. ~ Geoff Ryman

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred. ~ Albert Einstein

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ~ Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort ~ Albert Einstein

The economists will have to revise their theories of value. ~ Albert Einstein

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy. ~ Albert Einstein

Empty away your many thoughts to make room for more needed material instead of thoughts that we will never use. Einstein ~ Albert Einstein

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure. ~ Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state ~ Albert Einstein

[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. ~ Albert Einstein

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. ~ Albert Einstein

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. ~ Marc Guggenheim

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. ~ Albert Einstein

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip. ~ Albert Einstein

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Albert Einstein

Every true theorist is a kind of tamed metaphysicist. ~ Albert Einstein

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. ~ Albert Einstein

So long as there are men, there will be wars. ~ Albert Einstein

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. ~ Albert Einstein

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. ~ Albert Einstein

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. ~ Albert Einstein

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary. ~ Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~ Albert Einstein

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all. ~ Albert Einstein

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. 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 each day.
- "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64 ~ Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the earth ~ Albert Einstein

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice. ~ Albert Einstein

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one. ~ Albert Einstein

Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going. ~ Albert Einstein

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. ~ Albert Einstein

Even a fool is wise after an event. ~ Albert Einstein

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be. ~ Albert Einstein

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity. ~ Albert Einstein

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. ~ Albert Einstein

Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions. ~ Albert Einstein

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~ Albert Einstein

I'm not a geius guy, even and Albert Einstein isn't and Tesla, nobody is genius. From where you will know what's the IQ for Albert or Tesla in their time there wasn't such test and how such test can show how clever are you in case that the most questions are math, physics and mainly this how this two subjects will show that you are clever or dumb?? I strongly doubt about this if I know the answer sof the test and I fill it right so I must be the world clever man? No, I don't think so - That's bullshit!
That I have written 8 books and now I'm working on some other books this doesn't make me clever, the most stuff are just search from the internet and put, the other is thoughts from me. Like thinking on some questions and that's all! ~ Deyth Banger

Free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language? ~ Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. ~ Albert Einstein

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. ~ Albert Einstein

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. ~ Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. ~ Albert Einstein

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole. ~ Albert Einstein

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture). ~ Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ~ Albert Einstein

The only thing you have to absolutely know is the location of the library. ~ Albert Einstein

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. ~ Albert Einstein

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." -Albert Einstein ~ Diana Mauer

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. ~ Albert Einstein