“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
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Famous Albert Einstein Quotes
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.”
“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.”
Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man
“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Source: Evolution of Physics
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
Source: The World As I See It
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.”
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”
“All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
Source: Evolution of Physics
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”