Albert Einstein Quotes

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

Imagination is the highest form of research.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions."

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Ego=1/Knowledge" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am...

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children...

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction...

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr...

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to th...

The environment is everything that isn't me.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creativ...

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitiv...

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am asto...

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the p...

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of ...

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. Th...

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einst...

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any mor...

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factor...

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all th...

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we create...

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

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be ...

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the...

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication a...

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps t...

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

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cann...

Information is not knowledge.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

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

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man'...

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop question...

Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

Play is the highest form of research.

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

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...

Dancers are the athletes of God.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its ...

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come...

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end ...

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a...

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

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Love is a better master than duty.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is charac...

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He exp...

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

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

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a se...

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

Never memorize something that you can look up.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and ph...

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually...

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

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