ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." -

Albert Einstein Quotes - Science
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter." - Albert Einstein
"For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe." - Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
"I don't believe in mathematics." - Albert Einstein
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." - Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - Albert Einstein
"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research." - Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein Quotes - Religon
"God does not play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details." - Albert Einstein
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God." - Albert Einstein 'The Human Side', 1954
"Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not." - Albert Einstein
"Strange is our situation here upon this earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose." - Albert Einstein
"There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion." - Albert Einstein
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player." - Albert Einstein
"Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me." - Albert Einstein
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe." - Albert Einstein
"I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice." - Albert Einstein
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein Quotes - Humanity
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - 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
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Albert Einstein
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." - Albert Einstein
"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." - Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"So long as there are men there will be wars." - Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings." - Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." - Albert Einstein
"It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped." - Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein
"America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice." - Albert Einstein
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Quotes - Humorous
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it." - Albert Einstein
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." - Albert Einstein
"With fame, I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon." - Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein Quotes - Education
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty." - Albert Einstein
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
"We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know." - Albert Einstein
"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball." - Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert Einstein