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Attributed quotes — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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121 quotes

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

Attributed Einstein's God (1997)

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949)

For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly trustworthy physical and human environment.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)

Science can only arrange ethical propositions logically and furnish the means for the realization of ethical aims, but the determination of aims is beyond its scope.

Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seelig (1956)

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.

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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.

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