Quotations Of The Late Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Any fool can make this bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

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

"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."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"God does not play dice."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

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

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. "

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

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

"The faster you go, the shorter you are."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."

~Albert Einstein