Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Quotes

• When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

• The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

• I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.

• The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

• How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

• A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

• Information is not knowledge.

• God does not play dice with the universe.

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

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

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

• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

• The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.

• God is clever, but not dishonest.