Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 4

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

As the circle of light increases, so does its circumference of darkness.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

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

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.
So I stopped wearing socks.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

Information is not knowledge.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.