Famous Quotes of Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.