Quotes by Albert Einstein

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.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

There is nothing a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel [to serve as President], and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. For these reasons alone I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads on my strength. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

I never think about the future. It comes soon enough.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

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

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

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.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten, what one has learned in school.

Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

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.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Never memorize what you can look up in books.