Nationality: German
Type: Physicist
Born: March 14, 1879
Died: April 18, 1955


Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
"Albert Einstein"

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
"Albert Einstein"

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
"Albert Einstein"

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
"Albert Einstein"

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
"Albert Einstein"

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
"Albert Einstein"

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
"Albert Einstein"

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
"Albert Einstein"

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
"Albert Einstein"

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
"Albert Einstein"

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
"Albert Einstein"

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
"Albert Einstein"

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
"Albert Einstein"

 Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
"Albert Einstein"

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
"Albert Einstein"

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
"Albert Einstein"

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
"Albert Einstein"

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
"Albert Einstein"

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
"Albert Einstein"

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
"Albert Einstein"

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
"Albert Einstein"

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
"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"

The only source of knowledge is experience.
"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"

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
"Albert Einstein"

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
"Albert Einstein"

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
"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"

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"

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
"Albert Einstein"

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
"Albert Einstein"

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

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"

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
"Albert Einstein"

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
"Albert Einstein"

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
"Albert Einstein"

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
"Albert Einstein"

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
"Albert Einstein"

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
"Albert Einstein"

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
"Albert Einstein"

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
"Albert Einstein"

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
"Albert Einstein"

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
"Albert Einstein"

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
"Albert Einstein"

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
"Albert Einstein"

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
"Albert Einstein"

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
"Albert Einstein"

Information is not knowledge.
"Albert Einstein"

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
"Albert Einstein"

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
"Albert Einstein"

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
"Albert Einstein"

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
"Albert Einstein"

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
"Albert Einstein"

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
"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"

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
"Albert Einstein"

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
"Albert Einstein"

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
"Albert Einstein"

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
"Albert Einstein"

The environment is everything that isn't me.
"Albert Einstein"

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
"Albert Einstein"

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
"Albert Einstein"

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"

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
"Albert Einstein"

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
"Albert Einstein"

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
"Albert Einstein"

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
"Albert Einstein"

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
"Albert Einstein"