Quotes By Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

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.

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

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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

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

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

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 only to the individual that a soul is given.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I want to know all God's thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.