The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into… — 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
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care… — 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
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
[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
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
[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
When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves… — 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
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
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — 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
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
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — 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
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — 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
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
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded) — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today — 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
The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them — 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
I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. — 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
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them. — 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
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
![“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/albert-einstein-33_built_no-one-must-think-that-newton-s-great-cr_591691.jpg)
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![“[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/albert-einstein-33_acknowledge_newton-wrote-to-halley-that-he-would-not_344363.jpg)
![“[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/albert-einstein-33_cases_freud-s-sense-of-reality-is-less-clouded_437689.jpg)
