Albert Einstein Quotes

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entir...

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and will...

The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By ...

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the c...

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system ...

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishmen...

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easi...

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized an...

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, o...

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to ...

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stan...

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for pe...

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific rese...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

God does not play dice with the universe.

If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of g...

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge ...

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

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

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet s...

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the ...

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth ...

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifi...

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

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and nee...

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of a...

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which ...

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. ...

… there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay...

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systemat...

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brande...

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control....

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own...

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would...

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

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought h...

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anythin...

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting to...

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

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

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the indi...

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

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out ma...

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are mode...

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logical...

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I...

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth ti...

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand i...

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the univers...

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

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ...

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the ...

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human tempe...

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

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific disc...

Imagination is the highest form of research.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself i...

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

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the universit...

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the neces...

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped we...

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men usually incomparably more than...

If my theory of relativity is proven successful Germany will claim me as a German and France will ...

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

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

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

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. N...

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, in...