It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you are courting nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place? — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Tow things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe . — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are two things eternal. Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not even sure about the universe — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein Copy Share