Quotes By Albert Einstein

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

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

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.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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

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

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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

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

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

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.