Quotes by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

German - American physicist

Lived from: 1879 - 1955

Category: Scientists Country: FlagGermany

Born: 14 march 1879 Died: 18 april 1955

  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
  • Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
  • And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
  • Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
  • Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
  • No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
  • Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
  • There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
  • I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
  • Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
  • I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
  • When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
  • To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
  • All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
  • The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
  • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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  • If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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  • Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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  • God does not play dice with the universe.
    Original: Gott würfelt nicht.
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  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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  • Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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  • Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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  • Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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  • Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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  • During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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  • I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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  • And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
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  • Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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  • Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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  • Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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  • If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
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  • Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
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What are the most famous quotes from Albert Einstein?

The two most famous quotes from Albert Einstein are:

  • "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
  • "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."

When did Albert Einstein live?

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 and died in the year 1955.