Quotes By Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

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

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

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.