Albert Einstein Quotes

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,isthat its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of allother sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of beingoverthrown by newly discovered facts.

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Success = 1 part work plus 1 part play plus 1 part keep your mouth shut

I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious.

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 in 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.

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.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

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

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.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

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.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

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

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

The release of atomic 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. (1945)

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.