Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ― Albert Einstein
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.
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
Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Never memorize something that you can look up.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.
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.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You never fail until you stop trying.
I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope \x97 we must hope \x97 that man\x92s own creation, man\x92s own genius, will not destroy him.
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! ― Bill Watterson
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
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.
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success. ― Albert Einstein
It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just that I stay with problems longer.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value
Imagination is more important than knowledge. ― Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact. When Einstein was stymied while working out General Relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart until he could reconnect to what he called the harmony of the spheres.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society \x97 nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
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.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling 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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing — a somewhat unfamilar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
And space, what it is like? Is it mechanical, Newtonian? A frozen prison? Or the lofty space of Einstein, the relation Between movement and movement? No reason to pretend I know. I don't know, and if I did, Still my imagination is a thousand years old.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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. [Address to California Institute of Technology, 1931.]
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
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.
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.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
[Louis Kelso] could be to 21st Century capitalistic economics what Einstein was to 20th Century physics. [ Sunday Magazine , May 17, 1970.]
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ― Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
You will never amount to much. -- Munich Schoolmaster, to Albert Einstein, age 10
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits." -- Albert Einstein</p>
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein</p>
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein</p>
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. -- A. Einstein.
Bistromathics is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants. -- Douglas Adams
If A equals success, then the formula is _A = _X + _Y + _Z. _X is work. _Y is play. _Z is keep your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein</p>
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</p>
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein</p>
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein</p>
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- unless it is an enemy. -- Albert Einstein</p>
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -- Albert Einstein</p>
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -- Albert Einstein</p>
God is subtle, but he is not malicious. -- Albert Einstein</p>
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein</p>
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy. -- Albert Einstein</p>
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. -- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
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</p>
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein</p>
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -- Albert Einstein</p>
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein</p> They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach. -- Lucinda Childs "Einstein On The Beach"
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</p>
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. -- Albert Einstein</p>
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein</p>
It appears that after his death, Albert Einstein found himself working as the doorkeeper at the Pearly Gates. One slow day, he found that he had time to chat with the new entrants. To the first one he asked, "What's your IQ?" The new arrival replied, "190". They discussed Einstein's theory of relativity for hours. When the second new arrival came, Einstein once again inquired as to the newcomer's IQ. The answer this time came "120". To which Einstein replied, "Tell me, how did the Cubs do this year?" and they proceeded to talk for half an hour or so. To the final arrival, Einstein once again posed the question, "What's your IQ?". Upon receiving the answer "70",