If you’re looking for some words of motivation and inspiration, then it’s time for some inspiring quotes by Albert Einstein!
Famous Albert Einstein Quotes about Technology
“Scientists investigate that which already is.”
“It is the theory that decides what can be observed.”
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
“I am not very satisfied with my theory of thermoelectricity.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“Technological progress is like putting an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”
“The real goal of my research has always been the simplification and unification of the system of theoretical physics.”
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
“This world is a strange madhouse. Currently, every coachman and every waiter is debating whether relativity theory is correct.”
“I am actually glad that neither of you dedicated yourselves to science, because it is a hard thing, full of difficult and futile work.”
“This evening I sat 2 hours at the window and thought about how the law of interaction of molecular forces could be determined.”
“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.”
“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.”
“The progress of science presupposes the possibility of unrestricted communications of all results and judgments – freedom of expression and instruction in all realms of intellectual endeavor.”
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Inspirational Albert Einstein Quotes about Life
“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“I love Humanity but I hate humans.”
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
“Long live impudence! It’s my guardian angel in this world.”
“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.”
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
“I always get by best with my naivety, which is 20 percent deliberate.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“Live with purpose. Don’t let people or things around you get you down.”
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
“One lives one’s life under constant tension, until it is time to go for good.”
“I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.”
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
“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 believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.”
“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
“The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”
“Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow-men.”
“I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.”
“I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone – the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.”
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
“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.”
“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.”
“I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating [in the process] has always seem to me an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.”
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Albert Einstein Sayings about Success
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.”
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”
“The example of great and pure individuals in the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.”
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.”
“To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
“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.”
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Inspiring Albert Einstein Quotes on Imagination
“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
“A country becomes really a soul only in consciously serving the intellectual life.”
“A big fat book full of colored drawings by Japanese children lies always on my table.”
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.”
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”
“Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, an attitude which has never again left me.”
“I am certain that it is the mystery of not understanding that attracts people; it impresses them with the aura and magnetism of mystery.”
“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
“Music doesn’t influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement each other in the satisfaction they offer.”
“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.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
“Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.”
Albert Einstein Quotations about God
“God does not play dice with the universe.”
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous”
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”
“God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.”
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”
“Though I am now an old fogey, I am still hard at work and still refuse to believe that God plays dice.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”
“I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
“Strenuous intellectual work and looking at God’s nature are the reconciling, fortifying, yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life’s troubles.”
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.”
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Most Famous Albert Einstein Quotes about Love
“Love is a better master than duty.”
“Just be of good cheer, love, and don’t fret.”
“Marriage is but slavery – made to appear civilized.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”
“Only the thought of you gives my life here a true meaning.”
“How proud I will be to have a little Ph.D. for a sweetheart.”
“Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.”
“Marriage makes people treat each other as articles of property and no longer as free human beings.”
“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.”
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“Possessing you makes me proud & your love makes me happy. I will be doubly happy when I can press you to my heart again and see your loving eyes.”
“Is it not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, or nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois?”
Top Albert Einstein Quotes about Religion
“Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity.”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.”
“Fulfillment on the moral and esthetic side is a goal which lies closer to the preoccupations of art than it does to those of science.”
“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.”
“My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality.”
“A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those super personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.”
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
“Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“Schools may favor such freedom by encouraging independent thought.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
“This is quite natural: everybody likes to do that for which he has a talent.”
“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“Copernicus, through his work and the greatness of his personality, taught man to be modest.”
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.”
“Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life.”
“The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation.”
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need college. He can learn them from books.”
“Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.”
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”
“In the matter of physics [education], the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see.”
“When I was a little boy my father showed me a small compass, and the enormous impression that it made on me certainly played a role in my life.”
“Young people especially like to contemplate bold projects. Also, it is natural for a serious young man to envision his desired goals with the greatest possible precision.”
“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
“The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.”
“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.”
“Only if outward and inner freedom are constantly and consciously pursued is there a possibility of spiritual development and perfection and thus of improving man’s outward and inner life.”
“I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.”
“Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.”
“Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the liberating beauty of the intellect for your own personal joy and for the profit of the community to which your later work will belong.”
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Funny Quotes & Sayings by Albert Einstein
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”
“I never worry about the future – it comes soon enough.”
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
“I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
“I’m doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.”
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
“Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
“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.”
“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
“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.”
“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. That’s relativity.”
“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.”
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