German-born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and received Nobel Prize in physics. His many contributions include general and special relativity, photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, mass-energy equivalence, Einstein field equations, Unified Field Theory, Bose-Einstein statistics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”.
He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time. (1879-1955)
– Albert Einstein Quotes –
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
~ Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
~ Albert Einstein
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books – a mysterious order which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
~ Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
~ Albert Einstein
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
~ Albert Einstein
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~ Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms — this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
~ Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
~ Albert Einstein
Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~ Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~ Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
~ Albert Einstein
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
~ Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
~ Albert Einstein
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
~ Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
~ Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
~ Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
~ Albert Einstein
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
~ Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
~ Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
~ Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
~ Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
~ Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~ Albert Einstein
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
~ Albert Einstein
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
~ Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Albert Einstein
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
~ Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
~ Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
~ Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein
The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius which they call their point of view.
~ Albert Einstein
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
~ Albert Einstein
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
~ Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
~ Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
~ Albert Einstein
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible pipe
~ Albert Einstein
