Quotes from Albert Einstein
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
- Albert Einstein
We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing happens until something moves.
- Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
- Albert Einstein