Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein More Quotes by Albert Einstein More Quotes From Albert Einstein It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. Albert Einstein teachingmistakeeducation The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. Albert Einstein fundamentalslifeart A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. Albert Einstein disappointmentinspirationallife All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five. Albert Einstein learningeducationpeople If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will. Albert Einstein moontakenmen I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues. Albert Einstein statisticstryingyears Nonsense, seems to sum up everything. Albert Einstein nonsenseseems In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. Albert Einstein oblivioussailboatworld Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. Albert Einstein electronsconnectedmoving The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes. Albert Einstein independentracemen There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. Albert Einstein life-and-deathdestinymoving Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Albert Einstein sciencerealitythinking Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made. Albert Einstein knowinghelping-othersmen 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. Albert Einstein religiousgodinspirational Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein attitudeinspirationalcharacter People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it. Albert Einstein consciousanimalpeople The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion. Albert Einstein creativityindependentscience The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. Albert Einstein powerfulchangeinspirational The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself. Albert Einstein darkmathyears Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. Albert Einstein physicslawmean
