Quotes By Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

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.

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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.

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.

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.