Quotes from Albert Einstein

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.