some worthy einstein quotes

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EINSTEIN Quotes

born March 1879, Ulm, Germanydied April 1955, Princeton, N.J., US

20One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest effort. -- Albert Einstein

48Nature is the realization of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas. I am convinced that we can discover,by means of purely mathematical constructions, those concepts and those lawful connections between them

which furnish the key to the understanding of natural phenomena. Experience remains, of course, the sole

criteria of physical utility of a mathematical construction. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure

thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. Albert Einstein

92Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

93The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle

of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement is as

good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery even if mixed with fear that

engendered religion. A knowledge of something we can not penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest

reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds it is

this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense and in this sense alone, I am a

deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes its creatures, or has a will of the

type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond

my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality, together

with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself

in nature. Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1931


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94Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

95I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns

himself with fates and actions of human beings. Albert Einstein

139I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, and even my

immediate family with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a

need for solitude--feelings which increase with the years. Albert Einstein writing in 1930 (aged 51)

436When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant

more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -- A. Einstein

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

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Everything is emptiness and form is condensed emptiness. Albert Einstein

547A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He

experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion

of his 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. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our

circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to

achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation

for inner security. Albert Einstein

589Still there are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and

inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in

amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable.-- Albert Einstein

627I only had two original ideas in my life, and one of them was wrong. -- Albert Einstein

675One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike

and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Albert Einstein

773We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely

intense. There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the o nly

reality. Albert Einstein


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898The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the bible a

collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no

matter how subtle can (for me) change this. Albert Einstein

899My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced

freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I gang my own gait

and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole

heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude a

feeling which increases with the years. Albert Einstein

1100To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple,and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language

comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein

1102Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined

by the external world. Albert Einstein

1103It may be heuristically useful to keep in mind what one has observed. But on principle it is quite wrong to try

grounding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which

determines what we can observe.


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Albert Einstein

1104The most incomprehensible thing about the World is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein

1105Insofar as the propositions of mathematics give an account of reality they are not certain; and insofar as they are

certain they do not describe reality. Albert Einstein, 1921

1106Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein

1107For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn

one. Albert Einstein

1108Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the

striving frees us from the bonds of the Self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. Albert Einstein

1109I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with

no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein


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1110Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion

towards men and towards objective things. Albert Einstein

1111Our experience justifies us in believing that nature is the realization of the simplest conceivable mathematical

ideas. Albert Einstein

1112What are socks? They only produce holes. Albert Einstein

1113Every possession is a stone around the leg. Albert Einstein

1114Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the

laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein

1115When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute

and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein

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[The scientist's] religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement of 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

1117As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take

a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant. Albert Einstein

1118Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly,

physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by systematic thought. Albert Einstein

1119As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly

inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If such humility cold be conveyed to everybody,

the world of human activities would be more appealing. Albert Einstein

1120After World War 3 the next world war will be fought with stones. Albert Einstein

1121The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely of mathematical

or experimental skill, To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires

creative imagination and marks real advances in science. Albert Einstein

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Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would want to devote myself to, except for the

society of the true seekers, which has very living members at any time... . Albert Einstein

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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and

shoddy philosophies. Albert Einstein

1124 time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. Albert Einstein1125Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from

experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by pure logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Albert Einstein

1126Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the disinterested cooperation of many individuals. Albert Einstein

1127It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term scientific truth. Thus the meaning of the word truth

varies according to whether we deal with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition, or a scientific theory.

Religious truth conveys nothing clear to me at all.

Albert Einstein

1128It is the certainty by which we are so much impressed in mathematics. But this certainty is purchased at the price

of emptiness of content. Concepts can only acquire content when they are connected, however indirectly. With


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sensible experience. But no logical investigation can reveal this connection; it can only be experienced. And yet

it is this connection that determines the cognitive value of systems of concepts. Albert Einstein

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The only justification for our concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this

they have no legitimacy. Albert Einstein

1130The supreme task is to arrive at these universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by

pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of

experience can reach them... Albert Einstein

1131The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense which he has attained to

liberation from the self. Albert Einstein

1132In the interest of science it is necessary over and over again to engage in the critique of these fundamental

concepts, in order that we may not be unconsciously rules by them. Albert Einstein, (1954)

1133There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather

common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion, there would be neither

mathematics nor natural science. Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man

is able to comprehend the objective world rationally, by pure thought, without any empirical foundations in

short, by metaphysics.I believe that every true theorist is a kind of tamed metaphysicist, no matter pure a positivist he may fancy

himself. The metaphysicist believes that the logically simple is also the real. The tamed metaphysicist believes

that not all that is logically simple is embodied in experienced reality, but that the totality of all sensory


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experience can be comprehended on the basis of a conceptual system built on premises of great simplicity.

The skeptic will say that this is a miracle creed. Admittedly, but it is a miracle creed which has been borne out

to an amazing extent by the development of science. Albert Einstein

1169Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together

they are powerful beyond imagination. Albert Einstein

1187Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein[Ed Strachar, a motivational teacher, notes that many people know about this Einstein quote but do not know

whyEinstein said so. And the answer is that knowledge is about the past, imagination about the future. ( BCS)]

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