Quotes from Albert Einstein

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

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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

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

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

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

God does not play dice.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.