Quotes from Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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

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

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

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

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.