All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Any 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 Quote
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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 Quote
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein Quote
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein Quote
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein Quote
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein Quote
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein Quote
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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.
- Albert Einstein Quote
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein Quote
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein Quote
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein Quote
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein Quote
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein Quote
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein Quote
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein Quote
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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.
- Albert Einstein Quote
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
- Albert Einstein Quote
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein Quote
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein Quote
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- Albert Einstein Quote
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Quote
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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 Quote
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein Quote
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein Quote
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein Quote
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein Quote
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein Quote
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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 Quote
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
- Albert Einstein Quote
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Quote
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein Quote
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.
- Albert Einstein Quote
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein Quote
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein Quote
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein Quote
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein Quote
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein Quote
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein Quote
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein Quote
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein Quote
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
- Albert Einstein Quote
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein Quote
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein Quote
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein Quote
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein Quote
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein Quote
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein Quote
