Albert Einstein Quotes

(1879 - 1955) - German born physicist and Nobel prize winner.

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

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

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.