Quotes by Albert Einstein

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Student: Dr. Einstein, Arent these the same questions as last years [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Anyone who doesnt take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

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.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.