Quotes from Albert Einstein

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we're living.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.

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

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerfu... See more

Il est plus facile de désintégrer un atome qu'un préjugé

The theory must not contradict empirical facts

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

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

No man or Genie on earth had created anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had invented anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.

Did you know: The only source of knowledge is experience

Racism is a disease of white people

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

When Albert Einstein was asked what he would really like to know about the Universe he replied,'is it friendly?

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.