Albert Einstein Quotes

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Feeling, Intuition, Order

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

Human, Find, Cannot

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.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

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

Thinking, Shall, Survive

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

War, Earth, Perhaps

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

Power, Thinking, Everything

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

Science, Simple, May

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

Lose, Holy, Curiosity

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

War, Cannot, Prepare

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.
Albert Einstein

Human, Individual, Behind

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

Great, Pleasure, Indeed

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

Process, Wonder, Scientific

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein

Simple, Made, Possible

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

Soul, Individual

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

Science, Nothing, Thinking

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

Strange, Books, Popular

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

Great, Keep, Ideas

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age, Confusion, Means

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.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Order, Beyond

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Strength, Character

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Politics, Present, Eternity

The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert Einstein

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

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Experience, Fear

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

Themselves, Cruel, Dollar

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Physicist

Born: March 14, 1879

Died: April 18, 1955

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