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- Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I’m a German, and Germany will say that I’m a jew.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- So long as there are men there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his letters to his disciple M.S.Subbalakshmi, another famous Indian singer and Magsayee Award
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