Albert Einstein Quotes

Author Image

Albert Einstein

Profession : Physicist

Birth : March 14, 1879

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Albert Einstein

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein