Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” ~(Albert Einstein)

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as “laws...

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father...

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

There is not the slightest indication that (nuclear) energy will ever be obtainable

Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

[What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his...

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder

Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand...

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and...

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were...

I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that...

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.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

a brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

It is theory that decides what can be observed.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to...

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be...

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut