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Problems
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein, attributed
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Property
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
-Albert Einstein
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Questions
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
-Albert Einstein
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Racism
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
-Albert Einstein
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Reality
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It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.
-Albert Einstein, 1933
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Relationships
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
-Albert Einstein
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Religion
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-Albert Einstein
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What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
-Albert Einstein
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
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To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
-Albert Einstein
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Research
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
-Albert Einstein
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Results
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
-Albert Einstein
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Science
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
-Albert Einstein
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The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
-Albert Einstein
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
-Albert Einstein
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
-Albert Einstein
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
-Albert Einstein
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.
-Albert Einstein
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
-Albert Einstein
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-Albert Einstein, Telegram, May 24, 1946
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One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, couldn't be persuaded to give quantum physics his unreserved endorsement. Here is Einstein's most frequently paraphrased statement of dissatisfaction with the theory: Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
-Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born, December 4, 1926
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
-Albert Einstein, On relativity
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Books by and about Albert Einstein