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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Misattributed
You can recognize a really good idea by the fact that its implementation seems impossible in the first place.
Misattributed
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Attributed
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949)
What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)
If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula.
Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)
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)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
Disputed
Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.
Disputed
Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens and the moral universe within.
Misattributed
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Misattributed
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)