Quotes By Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

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

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

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

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

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.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Information is not knowledge.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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