Quotes from Albert Einstein

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the einsteinconditions in which they can learn."

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.