Quotes from Albert Einstein

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.