Physics Quotes by Albert Einstein

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

— Albert Einstein

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

— Albert Einstein

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

— Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

— Albert Einstein

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

— Albert Einstein

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

— Albert Einstein

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

— Albert Einstein

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

— Albert Einstein

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

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

— Albert Einstein

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

— Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

— Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

— Albert Einstein

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play.

— Albert Einstein

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment…

— Albert Einstein

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this…

— Albert Einstein

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It…

— Albert Einstein

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his…

— Albert Einstein

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the…

— Albert Einstein

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such…

— Albert Einstein

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to…

— Albert Einstein

It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into…

— Albert Einstein

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception…

— Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics…

— Albert Einstein

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all…

— Albert Einstein

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I…

— Albert Einstein

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man…

— Albert Einstein

You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of…

— Albert Einstein

[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

“The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of…

— Albert Einstein

“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect…

— Albert Einstein

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

— Albert Einstein

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

— Albert Einstein

“I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.”

— Albert Einstein

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

— Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

— Albert Einstein

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

— Albert Einstein

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

— Albert Einstein