Albert Einstien Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein

E = M C2

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.

That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein, Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

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

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing