Albert Einstein Quotes
A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.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
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.Albert Einstein
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.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
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.Albert Einstein
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.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
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.Albert Einstein
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I? m a German, and Germany will say that I? m a jew.Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?Albert Einstein
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.Albert Einstein
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.Albert Einstein
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches 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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.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
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.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
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
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.Albert Einstein
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.Albert Einstein
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.Albert Einstein
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.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
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
