Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, humanist, and philosopher. Regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, he is best known for revolutionizing twentieth-century physics with his contributions to relativity, photoelectric effect, and the unification of the laws of physics. A passionate humanist, he advocated peace, political freedom, and social justice.

Born to Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, Einstein started studying mathematics at school. He was an average student, and his teachers predicted that he would never amount to much in life. He did not succeed in his first attempt at the entrance exam to a technical college at age 16.

Einstein barely made it through the Zürich Polytechnic Institute and could not get a job in several science fields. He eventually joined the Swiss Patents Office in Bern as an examiner of patent applications and wrote scientific papers during his time off.

Einstein took Swiss nationality in 1901. In 1905, at age 26, he published four papers on the ‘Special Theory of Relativity’ in the German journal Annalen der Physik. These papers broke new ground in physics and included the legendary relation between mass and energy: E = mc-squared. In 1916, he published his work on the General Theory of Relativity. However, it was his work on the photoelectric effect that won Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity eventually united matter with energy and space with time. His work also helped usher in the age of atomic energy and weapons.

Einstein’s many biographies include Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007.) Einstein wrote The World As I See It (1934) and Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions (1931; with Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.)

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Inspirational Quotes by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Philosophy

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
Topics: Peace, War

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: War, One liners, Conflict

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science, Wisdom, Religion

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Assumptions, Theory

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Values

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Imagination

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Perfection, Character, Goal, Age, Goals

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Love

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: The Truth, Truth, Character

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Money, Wisdom

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Experiment

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Curiosity, Ability

We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Thought, Personality, Intellectuals, Intelligence

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Opinion, Opinions

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Graduation, Life, Hope, Learning, Questions, Friends and Friendship, Nature, Tomorrow

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Humankind, Humanity

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Right, Rightness, Inheritance

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Thoughts, Action

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ethics

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Act, Action, Change, Miscellaneous, Imagination, Life

A problem can not be solved with the same consciousness that created it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Attitude, Perception

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Life and Living

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Awareness

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Science

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; if I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Jews

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Universe

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Authority

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Patience

I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: World

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