smile quotes has compiled a collection of best quotes that were uttered by the greatest scientist of the twentieth century.
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
[“The Curious History of Relativity”]
“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.”
[Smithsonian, February 1979]
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
[“The Yale Book of Quotations”]
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
[Address to Prussian Academy of Science, January 1921]
“As 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.”
[Letter to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, September 1932]
“When 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.”
[“The Yale Book of Quotations”]
“It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was — but surely not less than three.”
[Letter, 1954]
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.”
[“The Universe and Dr. Einstein”]
“If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.”
[“The Yale Book of Quotations”]
“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
[“Albert Einstein, the Human Side”]
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
[“The World As I See It,” 1930]
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“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ 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 a sense of distance and a need for solitude.”
[“The World As I See It,” 1930]
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
[Smithsonian, February 1979]
“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.”
[“Productive Thinking,” 1959]
“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”
[“Conversations with Albert Einstein,” 1920]
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
[Smithsonian, February 1979]
“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
[Nova]
“The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind … is akin to that of the religious worshipper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.”
[Speech, 1918]
“The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.”
[Smithsonian, February 1979]
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“If there is any religion which would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. “
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“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.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“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.”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
Upon refusing surgery at the age of 76, he said: “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.”
These quotes reveal Einstein as a person who clearly cared about the human heart, the health of the planet and the wonders of this magnificent universe.
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