Albert Einstein German Quotations

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

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

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.