Top 100 Einstein Albert Quotes
#1. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.
Frank Sinatra
#2. It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.
Albert Einstein
#3. What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
Albert Einstein
#4. Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
Albert Einstein
#5. It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.
Albert Einstein
#6. Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
Albert Einstein
#7. I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.
Albert Einstein
#8. What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
Albert Einstein
#9. Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
Albert Einstein
#10. Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.
Albert Einstein
#12. Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
Albert Einstein
#14. I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
Albert Einstein
#15. The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
Albert Einstein
#16. Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
Albert Einstein
#17. Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Albert Einstein
#18. If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.
Albert Einstein
#19. No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Albert Einstein
#20. I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Albert Einstein
#21. Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
Albert Einstein
#22. Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
Albert Einstein
#23. Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.
Mark Batterson
#25. Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow
Albert Einstein
#26. In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.
Albert Einstein
#27. We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
Albert Einstein
#28. 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
#29. As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
#30. Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.
Albert Einstein
#32. Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
#33. The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
#34. The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
Albert Einstein
#36. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Albert Einstein
#37. We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity ... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
Albert Einstein
#39. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#40. When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
Albert Einstein
#41. I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
Albert Einstein
#42. 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
#44. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.
Albert Einstein
#45. There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
Albert Einstein
#46. Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein
#47. The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.
Albert Einstein
#49. Not mastery but service, will lead people in the right way.
Albert Einstein
#52. Whoever is devoid of the capacity of wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
Albert Einstein
#54. On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
Albert Einstein
#55. Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
Albert Einstein
#57. The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
Albert Einstein
#58. Your imagination is your preview of life coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
#59. The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
Albert Einstein
#60. Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
Niels Bohr
#62. 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.
Albert Einstein
#63. Albert Einstein once said, Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour - that's relativity.
Richard Wiseman
#64. the addition made in 1990: Albert Einstein, the first Jew in Walhalla.
Neil MacGregor
#65. We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe ... Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
Albert Einstein
#66. For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.
Albert Einstein
#67. He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
Albert Einstein
#68. 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.
Albert Einstein
#69. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
#70. For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
Albert Einstein
#71. Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
Albert Einstein
#72. Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
Albert Einstein
#73. Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Albert Einstein
#74. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert Einstein
#75. I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.
Albert Einstein
#76. E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared
Albert Einstein
#77. A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
Tom Shales
#78. It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
Albert Einstein
#79. An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein
#80. Albert Einstein, said, 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
Ashwin Sanghi
#82. On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.
Albert Einstein
#83. We will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.
Albert Einstein
#84. Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
Albert Einstein
#86. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
#88. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
David Allen
#89. The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.
Albert Einstein
#90. I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
Albert Einstein
#91. It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.
Albert Einstein
#92. [Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
Albert Einstein
#94. My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
#95. It would be better if you begin to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.
Albert Einstein
#96. My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
Albert Einstein
#98. [The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
Albert Einstein
#99. There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder
Albert Einstein
#100. When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
Albert Einstein
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