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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.

Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.

Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein