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Sunday, 18 May 2014

Albert Einstein Quotes and Sayings

Albert Einstein Quotes



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

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. 
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. 
Albert Einstein 

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? 
Albert Einstein 

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? 
Albert Einstein 

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

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. 
Albert Einstein 

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. 
Albert Einstein 

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. 
Albert Einstein 

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. 
Albert Einstein 

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. 
Albert Einstein 

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

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

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. 
Albert Einstein 

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
Albert Einstein 

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 
Albert Einstein 

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation. 
Albert Einstein 

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

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. 
Albert Einstein 

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. 
Albert Einstein 

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 
Albert Einstein 

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. 
Albert Einstein 

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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. 
Albert Einstein 

Force always attracts men of low morality. 
Albert Einstein 

God always takes the simplest way. 
Albert Einstein 

God does not play dice. 
Albert Einstein 

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 
Albert Einstein 

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. 
Albert Einstein 

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. 
Albert Einstein 

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! 
Albert Einstein 

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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. 
Albert Einstein 

I have just got a new theory of eternity. 
Albert Einstein 

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. 
Albert Einstein 
  
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. 
Albert Einstein 

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. 
Albert Einstein 

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. 
Albert Einstein 

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein 

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. 
Albert Einstein 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. 
Albert Einstein 

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. 
Albert Einstein 

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. 
Albert Einstein 

Information is not knowledge. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. 
Albert Einstein 

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 
Albert Einstein 

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? 
Albert Einstein 

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 
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 
  
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 
Albert Einstein 

Love is a better teacher than duty. 
Albert Einstein 

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. 
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 

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. 
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 lose a holy curiosity. 
Albert Einstein 

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. 
Albert Einstein 
  
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. 
Albert Einstein 

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 
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 

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. 
Albert Einstein 

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. 
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 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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 for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein 

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. 
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 
  
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 
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 

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. 
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 gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. 
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 hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. 
Albert Einstein 
  
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. 
Albert Einstein 

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 
Albert Einstein 
  
The man of science is a poor philosopher. 
Albert Einstein 

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. 
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 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 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 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 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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. 
Albert Einstein 

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 
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 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 two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if 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 could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. 
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 

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. 
Albert Einstein 

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. 
Albert Einstein 

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. 
Albert Einstein 
  
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. 
Albert Einstein 
  
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 
Albert Einstein 
  
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. 
Albert Einstein 

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. 
Albert Einstein 
  
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. 
Albert Einstein 

When the solution is simple, God is answering. 
Albert Einstein 

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. 
Albert Einstein 

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. 
Albert Einstein 
  
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. 
Albert Einstein 

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

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. 
Albert Einstein 

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. 
Albert Einstein  

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