Quotes from Albert Einstein

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

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

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.