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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Albert Einstein
Confused, Men, World

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

Albert Einstein
Pigs, Pursuit, Suitable

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

Albert Einstein
Grease, Brain, Use
Quoted by Otto Stern in an interview with Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

Albert Einstein
World Government, Desire, Environment

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Albert Einstein
Years, Fifty, Knows
"Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order,". Book by C. Lanczos, Wiley, New York, 1956.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.117, Open Road Media

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

Albert Einstein
Play, Stage, Conventional

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

Albert Einstein
Art, Lying, Men
"Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it

Albert Einstein
Problem, Solve, Ifs

A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.

Albert Einstein
Men, Order, Miracle

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Albert Einstein
Curiosity, Talent, Inquisitive

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

Albert Einstein
Climbing, Views, Vision

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Science, Words Of Wisdom
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Albert Einstein
Skills, Humanity, Opening Your Mind
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seeling, (p. 114), 1956.

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

Albert Einstein
Personality, Passionate, Unjust
"My Credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Albert Einstein
Problem, Planes, Worthy

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Hard Work, Independent
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Trust, Peace

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

Albert Einstein
Circles, Twists, Curls

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

Albert Einstein
Blessing, Baptism, Special
Albert Einstein (1995). “Essential Einstein”, Pomegranate

The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

Albert Einstein
Mind, Superstitions, Belief
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Albert Einstein
Love, Important, I Love You
"Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

Albert Einstein
Stars, Earth, Denied
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.11, Princeton University Press

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Albert Einstein
Men, Way, Tradition
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.186, Princeton University Press

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