Albert Einstein

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Information is not knowledge.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

God always takes the simplest way.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

God does not play dice.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.