Quotes from Albert Einstein

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

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.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.