Albert Einstein Quotes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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

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

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.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

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

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

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

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

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

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

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

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

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

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

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

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.