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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)
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
Disputed
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Misattributed
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)
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Misattributed
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Misattributed
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Misattributed
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.
Attributed
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.
Attributed
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
Attributed
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
Attributed Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
Attributed Einstein's God (1997)
I also believe that, this kind of religiousness, which makes itself felt today in scientific investigations, is the only creative religious activity of our time.
Attributed Einstein and Religion (1999)
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Misattributed