If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Any fool can know, the point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

Albert Einstein

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell’s equations of the electromagnetic field.

Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.

Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein