Quotes from Albert Einstein

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

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

I love Humanity but I hate humans

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

This new phenomena [atomic energy] would also lead to the construction of bombs…. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher.

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

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.