Quotes By Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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

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.

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

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

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

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.