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Einstein Quotes Quotes

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

– Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

– Albert Einstein

The deeper one penetrates into nature’s secrets, the greater becomes one’s respect for God.

– Albert Einstein

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 minds. The deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning Power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

– Albert Einstein

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.

– Albert Einstein

The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.

– Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

– Albert Einstein

The problems we face today cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them.

– Albert Einstein

It’s high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

– Albert Einstein

When asked, in 1936, to write something to be placed in a time capsule, Albert wrote the following: Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more rational than we are (or were) – why then, the Devil take you. Having, with all respect, given utterance to this pious wish, I am (or was) Yours

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself.

– Albert Einstein

Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

– Albert Einstein

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

– Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

– Albert Einstein

Insanity: Expecting different results from the same set of behaviors.

– Albert Einstein

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

– Albert Einstein

The War World after the next one will be fought with rocks.

– Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

– Albert Einstein

Did God have any choice in creating the universe?

– Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.

– Albert Einstein

God is subtle but He is not malicious.

– Albert Einstein

For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it. Arrows of hate have been shot at me, too; but they never hit me, because somehow they belong to another world, with which I have no connection whatsoever.

– Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

– Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

– Albert Einstein

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

– Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind.

– Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease, it is the measles of mankind.

– Albert Einstein

I think and think for months, for years; 99 times the conclusion is false, but the hundredth time I am right.

– Albert Einstein

Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute; sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour – that’s relativity!

– Albert Einstein

The only rational way of educating a child is to be an example – of what to avoid, if one can’t be the other sort.

– Albert Einstein