Albert Einstein Quotes

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

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.

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

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

He who joyfully marches to music 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 fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that […]

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.