Quotes By Albert Einstein

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

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.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.