Albert Einstein Quotes

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

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

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

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

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

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

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

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

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

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

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

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

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.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

There's a genius in all of us.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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