For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — 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 Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image