Quotes By Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

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.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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.

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

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.