"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
God does not play dice with the universe.
More Albert Einstein quotes
"The human spirit must prevail over technology.
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious...
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
"Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains ...
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven s...
"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimula...
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mys...
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this or...
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls...
"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the ...