These are some assorted quotes from everybody's favorite mathematician, Albert Einstein.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.
-- Albert Einstein
God is clever, but not dishonest.
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent oppostion from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
-- Albert Einstein
If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-- Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
-- Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-- Albert Einstein
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
-- Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-- Albert Einstein
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
-- Albert Einstein
The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.
-- Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?
-- Albert Einstein
I don't know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
-- Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
-- Albert Einstein
Little is the number that think with their own mind and feel with their own heart.
-- Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.
-- Albert Einstein