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Quotes By Albert Einstein

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Physicist

Albert Einstein

Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955

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

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

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

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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

God always takes the simplest way.

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

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

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

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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