Classic Quotes by Albert Einstein

1879-1955

American theoretical physicist

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists
are always artists as well.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon
events in the political field.

All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link
between them.
  

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