Quotes by Albert Einstein (Page 2)

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

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

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

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

As 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.

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.

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

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.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.

What 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.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

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

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 enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.