Quotes By Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

He who joyfully marches to music 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.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.