Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for theres no risk of accident for someone whos dead.

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

Mozarts music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

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.

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

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

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

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

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