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Quotes by Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
– Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
– Albert Einstein
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
– Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
– Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
– Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
– Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
– Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
– Albert Einstein
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
– Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
– Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
– Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
– Albert Einstein
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
– Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
– Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
– Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
– Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
– Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
– Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
– Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
– Albert Einstein
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
– Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
– Albert Einstein
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
– Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
– 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
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
– Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
– Albert Einstein
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
– Albert Einstein
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
– Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
– Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
– Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
– Albert Einstein
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
– Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
– Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like anhour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.THAT'S relativity.
– Albert Einstein
Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
– Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
– Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
– Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
– Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
– Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
– Albert Einstein
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
– Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
– Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
– Albert Einstein
The environment is everything that isn't me.
– Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
– Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
– Albert Einstein
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
– Albert Einstein
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.
– Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
– Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Albert Einstein
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
– Albert Einstein
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
– Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
– Albert Einstein
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
– Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
– Albert Einstein
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
– Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
– Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
– Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
– Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
– Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
– Albert Einstein
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
– Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
– Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
– Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
– Albert Einstein
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
– Albert Einstein
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
– Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
– Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
– Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
– Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
– Albert Einstein
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
– Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
– Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
– Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
– Albert Einstein
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
– Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
– 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
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
– Albert Einstein
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
– Albert Einstein
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
– Albert Einstein
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
– Albert Einstein
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
– Albert Einstein
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
– Albert Einstein
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
– Albert Einstein