Quotes by Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

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.
("Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
("Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
('Out of My Later Years,' 1950)

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
('Treasury for the Free World,' 1946)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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