Quotes from Albert Einstein

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.

You can never be too smart to know everything. Everyday you learn new things through events that transpire daily in your life

Nella vita quotidiana sono il classico solitario, ma la consapevolezza di appartenere alla comunità invisibile di quelli che lottano per la verità, per la bellezza e per la giustizia mi ha risparmiato ogni sensazione di isolamento

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts ... Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Evil is the absence of God.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything than can be counted counts.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton . { Referring to James Clerk Maxwell 's contributions to physics }

Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.

If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza 's Amor Dei Intellectualis , they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.