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Albert Einstein Quotes

Physicist
Born On
1879-03-14
Died On
1955-04-18
Birth Place
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Death Place
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Birth Sign
pisces
Father
Hermann Einstein
Mother
Pauline Einstein
Spouse
Elsa Löwenthal, Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
Nationality
German
Education
University of Zurich (1905), ETH Zurich (1901), Aargau Cantonal School (1895 – 1896), Luitpold Gymnasium
Scientists, Physicists
There was a German man who often visited America, and at almost every instance, he would be stopped by a passerby with a request to elaborate on 'that theory'. For a man who had no desire to be in the limelight, this indeed got irksome, and so he decided on the course of action that would follow. The next time he was stopped by an inquisitive person on the road, he said, 'Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.' Need we formally introduce one of the most venerable physicists of the 20th century, Albert Einstein? Cutting to the chase, he was the astute mind behind the general theory of relativity; the one who altered the face of modern physics and quantum mechanics. This superlative genius is so distinguished that for several years now, scientists have tried to figure out if he had a unique brain structure that could account for his high IQ. The 'Nobel Prize' winner's life and works have inspired innumerable movies, plays as well as books. His absentmindedness, whacky hairdo and eloquent expressions are distinctive characteristics that have served as cues for actors playing a mad scientist or a forgetful professor. Perspicacious, epigrammatic and intriguing aren't words enough to describe the following quotes by Albert Einstein.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Life
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Problems Thinking
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Problems
Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

Nature
Albert Einstein

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

Hope
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Science Things Universe
Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Success Value
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination Intelligence Knowledge
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination Logic
Albert Einstein

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

School Education Learning
Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Problems Thinking
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

People Wickedness World
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Art Knowledge Excitement Teachers
Albert Einstein

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

Talent Education
Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

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

Life Solitude Mind
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Art Science
Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Experience Knowledge
Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Love Blame
Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Good People Fear Hope
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Funny Girl
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Attitude Character Weak Point
Albert Einstein

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

Positivity Knowledge
Albert Einstein

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

Trust Truth
Albert Einstein

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

Peace Understanding
Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Research Learning
Albert Einstein

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

Progress
Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Life Imagination
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Greatness
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Success Value
Albert Einstein

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

Education Learning
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality Wisdom Semblance
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Eyes
Albert Einstein

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

Right Science
Albert Einstein

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.

Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Reason Curiosity
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love People
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Past Future Semblance
Albert Einstein

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

Reason Time
Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Government Disease
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Girl Kiss
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Anger
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Solitude Maturity Youth
Albert Einstein

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

Thinking Mankind
Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

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.

Reality Mathematics
Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Problems Science Imagination
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Funny Age
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Nature
Albert Einstein

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

Wars World
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Mathematics Worrying
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Age Education
Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

People Problems Truth Justice
Albert Einstein

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

Nothing Science Thinking
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Beauty Truth
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Money World
Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Equality Wisdom
Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Nothing
Albert Einstein

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

Death Education Growth
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Thinking Education
Albert Einstein

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Greatness People Character Science
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Happiness
Albert Einstein

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

Value
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Good Eyes
Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Power
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Wisdom Imagination Knowledge
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Curiosity Education
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Life Mind
Albert Einstein

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

Future
Albert Einstein

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

Poetry Mathematics Ideas
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Problems
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Respect
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Soul Strength
Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Rest
Albert Einstein

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

Power Universe Faith
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Personality Intelligence
Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Girl
Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

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

Energy Wars
Albert Einstein

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.

Nature Beauty Compassion
Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death Fear
Albert Einstein

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

Truth Knowledge Laughter
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Good
Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Time
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Truth
Albert Einstein

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

Conscience
Albert Einstein

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

Truth
Albert Einstein

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

Good Wickedness
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science
Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Soul
Albert Einstein

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