Quotes from Albert Einstein

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

Mozart's music was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

Everything has changed. . . except the way we think. The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problems

The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

God always takes the simplest way.

Now he has again preceded me a little in parting from this strange world. This has no importance. For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.

True genius never says he know what he is doing

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude... ~ Einstein

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell .

The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.