Albert Einstein Quotations

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"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."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"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."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"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."
"He who joyfully marches to the 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. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" "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."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber."
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer ."
"My Sense of God is my sense of wonder."
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help in the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth."