Famous Quotes

Quotes by Albert Einstein

• I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
• 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 cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
• I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
• I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
• I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• 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.
• Information is not knowledge.
• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
• It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.