Quotes By Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

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.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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