Albert Einstein | Theoretical Physicist 🧑‍🔬

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

God does not play dice.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

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.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.