Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955 · 184 quotes
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein
Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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 unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
