We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — 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
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. — 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
I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded) — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You will never solve problems using the same thinking you created them with. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought. — 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