Albert Einstein Ions Quotations

For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.

For every action, there is a reaction.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Everything in life is vibration.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

A mathematical equation stands forever