Albert Einstein

A theoretical physicist; author of the special and general theories of relativity.

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31 quotations — 9 Funny, 22 Serious.


  1. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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  2. Coincidence: God's way of remaining anonymous.
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  3. I never think of the future.
    It comes soon enough.
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  4. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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  5. If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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  6. Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.
    And I'm not sure about the former.
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  7. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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  8. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
    But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour.
    That's relativity.
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  9. You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas.
    I've only ever had one.
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  10. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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  11. 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.
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  12. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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  13. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
    I can assure you mine are still greater.
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  14. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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  15. I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist.
    I am willing to fight for peace.
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  16. I have no special talent.
    I am only passionately curious.
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  17. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought.
    But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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  18. Intellectuals solve problems.
    Geniuses prevent them.
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  19. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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  20. Life is like riding a bicycle.
    To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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  21. Logic will get you from A to B.
    Imagination will take you everywhere.
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  22. Make everything as simple as possible.
    But not simpler.
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  23. No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right.
    A single experiment can prove me wrong.
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  24. Not everything that can be counted counts.
    And not everything that counts can be counted.
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  25. Reality is merely an illusion.
    Albeit a very persistent one.
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  26. Science is a wonderful thing, if one does not have to earn one's living doing it.
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  27. That is simple, my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
    [Response to being asked why people could discover atomic power, but not the means to control it.]
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  28. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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  29. To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
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  30. Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
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  31. We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
    It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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