Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor’s degree.
“Quotes By Albert Einstein”
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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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.
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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
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.
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It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.
Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
The environment is everything that isn’t me.
Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein
To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein