Quotes from Albert Einstein

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.

There are times when one feels liberated from one's limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.