Albert Einstein Quotes
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.Albert Einstein
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.Albert Einstein
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.Albert Einstein
There is an atmosphere of well - Sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it.Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?Albert Einstein
Emc Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.Albert Einstein
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.Albert Einstein
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.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
I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details.Albert Einstein
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.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
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.Albert Einstein
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.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
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.Albert Einstein
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.Albert Einstein
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career.Albert Einstein
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert Einstein