Quotes By Albert Einstein

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.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

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

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

God does not play dice.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.