Albert E. quotes

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

03/14/1879 - 04/18/1955

Nobel Prize Laureate (Physics)

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

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.
Albert Einstein



The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein


Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein


I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein


You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein


Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein


Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein


If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein


The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein


Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein


A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
Albert Einstein


Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
Albert Einstein



If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein


Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein


At any rate, I am convinced that he [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein


The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein


I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein



Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein


With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
Albert Einstein


Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
Albert Einstein


Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice.
Albert Einstein



The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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


Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Albert Einstein


Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
Albert Einstein