Quotes from Albert Einstein

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

Ró?nica pomiÄ™dzy gÅ'upotÄ… a geniuszem jest taka, ?e geniusz ma granice.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Para ser un miembro irreprochable de un rebaño de ovejas hace falta primero ser oveja.

Gott würfelt nicht.

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Debo estar dispuesto a renunciar a lo que soy para convertirme en lo que seré

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

Cei care au privilegiul de a ?ti, au datoria de a ac?iona

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

There is always a certain charm in tracing the evolution of theories in the original papers; often such study offers deeper insights into the subject matter than the systematic presentation of the final result polished by the words of many contemporaries.

A realidade é apenas uma ilusão, apesar de ser uma ilusão bastante persistente.

If you tell a fish you can't climb a tree, then it will think he/she is dumb forever

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Dou? lucruri sunt infinite : universul È™i prostia uman?, îns? de univers nu sunt sigur.

The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers.