Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955 · 184 quotes
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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 only real valuable thing is intuition.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Information is not knowledge.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
God does not play dice.
God always takes the simplest way.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
