Albert Einstein - Quotes 201-300
Live as if you were to die tommorow; dream as if you were to live forever.
Albert Einstein
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Albert Einstein
I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so - what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life - solving problems - and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.
Albert Einstein
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Albert Einstein
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
Albert Einstein
Life is a mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
Albert Einstein
The strongest force in the universe is compound interest.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
Albert Einstein
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
Albert Einstein
If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
Albert Einstein
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
Albert Einstein
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
Albert Einstein
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
Albert Einstein
Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.
Albert Einstein
The most amazing thing about the world is that we understand it.
Albert Einstein
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
Albert Einstein
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn't... pays it.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Albert Einstein
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
Albert Einstein
The most important question a person can ask is, 'Is the Universe a friendly place?'
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
Albert Einstein
Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Albert Einstein
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Albert Einstein
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Albert Einstein
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Albert Einstein
There is nothing known as 'Perfect.' It's only those imperfections which we choose not to see.
Albert Einstein
As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.
Albert Einstein
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Albert Einstein
I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
Albert Einstein
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's much bigger than I am.
Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein
I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
Albert Einstein
You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.
Albert Einstein
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.
Albert Einstein
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
Albert Einstein
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
Albert Einstein
The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
Albert Einstein
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Albert Einstein
We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.
Albert Einstein
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
Albert Einstein
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake.
Albert Einstein
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher.
(When asked about completing his income tax form)
Albert Einstein
The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.
Albert Einstein
I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to.
Albert Einstein
Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein
In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
Albert Einstein
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.
Albert Einstein
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein
Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.
Albert Einstein
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?
Albert Einstein
Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
Albert Einstein
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan.
Albert Einstein
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.
Albert Einstein
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
Albert Einstein
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Albert Einstein
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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