Quotes by Albert Einstein

About Albert Einstein:

Albert Einstein is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
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I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b...

Albert Einstein

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession ...

Albert Einstein

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Albert Einstein

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

Albert Einstein

Nothing happens until something moves.

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Albert Einstein

Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

Albert Einstein

Some recent work by and , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for ...

Albert Einstein

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein

We can't solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.

Albert Einstein

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

Albert Einstein

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in and to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long ...

Albert Einstein

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Albert Einstein

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the...

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems dis...

Albert Einstein

Author Bio

  • NameAlbert Einstein
  • DescriptionGerman-American physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
  • AliasesEinstein
  • BornMarch 14, 1879
  • DiedApril 18, 1955
  • CountrySwitzerland; United States Of America
  • ProfessionTheoretical Physicist; Philosopher Of Science; Inventor; Science Writer; Astronomer; Educationist; University Professor
  • AwardsBarnard Medal For Meritorious Service To Science; Nobel Prize In Physics; Gold Medal Of The Royal Astronomical Society; Prix Jules Janssen; Matteucci Medal; Max Planck Medal; Franklin Medal; Copley Medal; Order Of Merit For Arts And Science