Albert Einstein1879–1955The quotations of
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879–1955
95 quotes, most often on Science, God and War & Peace. Part of the Scientists collection.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
- Why Socialism? (1949)
- “Only Then Shall We Find Courage”, New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946).
- Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949) edited by Paul A. Schilpp- Statement on the Atomic Bomb to Raymond Swing, before 1 October 1945, as reported in Atlantic Monthly, vol. 176, no. 5 (November 1945), in Einstein on Politics, p. 373
One may say “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
From the article “Physics and Reality” (March 1936), reprinted in Out of My Later Years (1956)Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p. 367- Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)
