Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?
PopularityAlbert Einstein, in einem Interview mit der New York Times, 1942Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Albert EinsteinNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert EinsteinLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Nature & EnvironmentAlbert EinsteinI have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
CuriosityAlbert Einstein, in einem Brief an Carl Seelig, 1952Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Vegetarians & VegansAlbert Einstein (Scientist)Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Mathematics, PoliticsAlbert EinsteinAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
MathematicsAlbert EinsteinWhoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
TruthAlbert EinsteinThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
Power, KnowledgeAlbert Einstein, The New Quotable EinsteinWisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Wisdom, SchoolAlbert Einstein, Brief, 22. März 1944I 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.
Albert EinsteinPast thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
War, Nuclear EnergyAlbert EinsteinSo many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.
ForestAlbert EinsteinWhat 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 unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.
Humanity, War, Progress, ScienceAlbert EinsteinLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Life, Work & Carreer, ProgressAlbert Einstein, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)The state is made for man, not man for the state.
GovernmentsAlbert Einstein, Rede zur Genfer Abrüstungskonferenz, 1932There is nothing a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different
Albert EinsteinA happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Happiness, Future, Moment & PresentAlbert Einstein, im Alter von 17 Jahren