Albert Einstein Ills Quotations

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.