Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein - Page 2
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German physicist Albert Einstein.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
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.
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Information is not knowledge.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
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.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Related Authors
Alan Lightman Quotes
American
Physicist
Brian Greene Quotes
American
Physicist
Freeman Dyson Quotes
American
Physicist
Gregory Benford Quotes
American
Physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
American
Physicist
James Clerk Maxwell Quotes
Scottish
Physicist
Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes
American
Physicist
Leonard Mlodinow Quotes
American
Physicist
Lisa Randall Quotes
American
Physicist
Michio Kaku Quotes
American
Physicist
Murray Gell-Mann Quotes
American
Physicist
Niels Bohr Quotes
Danish
Physicist
Richard P. Feynman Quotes
American
Physicist
Roger Penrose Quotes
English
Physicist
Stephen Hawking Quotes
English
Physicist
Werner Heisenberg Quotes
German
Physicist